I want to compare Monet to another artist of that era and I have choosen Degas.

• Edgar Deas was born in Paris in 1834.6 years before Monet.
• Degas had a strictly Classical Education at Lycee Louis le Grande.Unlike Monet who had more of a middle class upbringing.
• Degas' family were strongly in favour of the arts especially his father. His father encouraged his children into the field. Monets family on the other hand were very comerical and had no interest in the art world except excapt for his mother.
• The majority of Degas' notebooks are devoted to the art of the past. He drew sculptures, cathedrals and landscapes where as Monets early notebooks were filled with caricatures.

 

Caricatures by Monet 

 http://www.aboutfacesentertainers.com/caricature/about_caricature2.htm

•   Degas first submitted his successfully to the salon in 1865 with the painting Misfortunes of New Orleans. This was the same year that Monet first submitted.

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 Misfortunes of New Orleans  Degas

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• Degas was inspired by Courbet and the new school of artists.
• Degas and Monet began to follow the idea of 'new artists'. They were turning their attention to subject matter of their own times, to the cities and streets, and to personalities and dramas of their own experiences. 
• Unlike monet who fled France during the Franco Prussian war, Degas enlisted in the national Guard. But, like Monet he also did leave the coutry to paint abroad a few years later. New York and New Orleans.
• Movement was Degas' main focus. he was more concerned about capturing a moment and the movement with it. He focused alot on the Everyday Life. He tudied women going about their business, Dancers and Horses. All so he could capture a blur of movement. Monet although he was concerned with capturing a moment he was more concerned about the effects of light and the season change on a subject matter. He liked to paint en plein air where as degas much preferred to paint indoors due to his sight condition.

Waterlilies

• In a first phase which lasted from 1893 to 1901 the temperature had to be raised to suit the sensitive waterlilies which Monet had imported from Japan.
• An arched wooden bridge in Japanese style was built across the narrowest part of the pond. 
• His earliest consistent series of the subject was not until 1899. It was exhibited at Durand-Ruels gallery and included Bridge over a pool of waterlilies. This is my choosen artwork for my animation project.
• In the painting itself the sky has been deliberatley excluded, and the eye focused upon the flora and the surface of the water.

 

 

                                        
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Artist : Claude Monet
Artwork: Bridge over a Pool of Waterlilles.

Who is Claude Monet?

• Monet was born in Paris in 1840 to his parents Claude Adolphe Monet and Louise-Justine Aubree.he had one brother Leon Pascal Monet.
• At the time of Monets birth in 1840 France was enjoying a period of relative economic and political stability.in line with the growing interesta of the middle classes, artistic trends were increasingly being set by beourgeouis taste, a factor which precipitated the landscape painting of Barbizon school.
• France fell into economic crisis in the mid forties.This led to monet and his family moving to Le Harve.
• He grew up in a comerically oriented hous. Only his mother showed an interest in the arts. Her early death in 1857 was a blow to the 17 year old Monet.
• At school Monet recived his first drawing lesson from Francis-Charles Orchard.hese lessons had no profound influence.
• Monet had a talemt for characuturist. he did portraits of people around Le Harve and charged for them.

Eugene Boudin

• Monet initally reacted with aversion to the Boudin Seascapes. They were nevertheless introduced to eachother. Boudin praised Monets drawings.
• He convinced Monet that objects painted directly infront of you possessed greater vitality than those created in the studio. it had intensity that could not be recreated.
• The two men walked through Montgeon Forest. Boudin set up his easel and went to work " I watched attentively, and then, as if a veil had been torn aside, i grasped what painting could be"

                              "If i became a painter it is to Eugene Boudin i owe that fact"






The Sea at Douarnenez - Eugene Boudin
http://www.topofart.com/images/artists/Eugene_Boudin/paintings/boudin010.jpg

• Under Boudin in the summer of 1858 Monet produced two seascapes to him.He was 17 and a half.
• Six months later Monet told his father he wanted to become a painter and moved to Paris. His family allowed him to stay there if he entered the atelier of Thomas Couture. Couture prepared students for the Ecole des Beaux Arts. However, Monet and Couture did not see eye to eye. Monet was an independant mind and did not take critisim well. Couture lost his temper easily and refused to accept new students who had limited means to boot.
• In Febuary 1860 Monet moved again. Since he was not to attend Couture he had to find another atelier. he decided on the private academy. Academie Suisse.it was here he made his first contact with so-called realist painters.

• In spring 1861 Monet was drafted to the military service. He was sent to Algeria with the African legion. He could only stay two of the 7 years however due to illness. Monet later judged this period abroad to have benifitted his painting.
• He was then introduced to the dutch painter Johan Barthold Jongkind. Jongkinds paintings focused on above all on the sea and the coast. He sought to render subtle atmosphere effects through sensitive use of colour and airy landsacapes built of brief brushstrokes. This made him a forerunner of impressionist painting.

                " Jongkind was my true teacher, and i owe to him the final education of my eye"

• The salon of March 1865 was the first the Monet submitted two pictures. They were both accepted.

The Seine near its Estuary, Honfleur.

 http://www.risdmuseum.org/explore/objects/95.shtml?theme=places

 

La pointe de La Heve at Low Tide 

 http://www.monetalia.com/paintings/monet-the-pointe-de-la-heve-at-low-tide.aspx

• A war later began. The Franco-Prussian War. In 1870 Monet, Pissaro and Boudin fled to London. Here Monet met with John Constable and Willim Turner. Constables paintings were concerned with the effects of light. Turners concerned with changes in the landscape. Monets works were always compared to turners although he protested against it..
• Monet moved back to Paris.His works were now based on the effects of light and he worked alot in series which allowed him to capture these effcts through day times and season change.

  Haystack-Morning Sun

 

Rouen Cathedral 

Monet made his final move to Giverney. Here he spent many years redesigning not only the house but also the garden. He wanted to create his own japenese inspired garden which would occupy him now untill the end of his life.