I love Monets work and was wondering about some more info on his life and his methods of painting.
Aso wanted some references to more of his work.
Thanks Guys!!
2007-06-06 20:57:30 · 2 answers · asked by Lea C 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
Monet, Claude (b. Nov. 14, 1840, Paris, Fr.--d. Dec. 5, 1926, Giverny) French painter, initiator, leader, and unswerving advocate of the Impressionist style. He is regarded as the archetypal Impressionist and one of his pictures Impression: Sunrise (Musée Marmottan, Paris; 1872)--gave the group his name.
For details of life; http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/monet/
Methods of painting:
Here you can click on the following paintings/or periods in career and there are images in each case:
Early works, Sainte-Adresse, near Le Havre 1840-1872
First Impressionist paintings
Later Impressionism
Paris
Rouen Cathedral
Poplars on the Epte
Waterlilies
Haystacks
Houses of Parliament, London
Last years
As regards his method of painting. This is set out clearly
http://www.sculpturesplace.com/bbs/index.cgi/noframes/read/3142 "The techniques of Claude Monet"
and also http://painting.about.com/od/oldmastertechniques/a/painting_Monet.htm
2007-06-07 06:22:46 · answer #1 · answered by angela l 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Er..when they mention search the net they mean something like this:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-wave&p=Monet
or
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0geu.xUK2hGfTQAnPxXNyoA?ei=UTF-8&p=Monet&fr=slv8-wave&fr2=tab-web&fr=slv8-wave
2007-06-07 04:59:47 · answer #2 · answered by Puppy Zwolle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋