What I have learned.

What I have learned through this project through my painting emulated of Monet was that you need to be emotionally invested into your painting and not only capture the moment through light and space but feel something for your painting. To have feelings for the subject, colors, or style.  I chose a subject matter of a landscape somewhat like Monet would have chosen but only I took it from modern day. I chose a cityscape and a subway train. This is something I love, I love the city, the noises, and the silhouettes the buildings make at night time.  I chose the colors by the idea that the city has at night its dirty and cold and dark in the winter nights. Through this process I have learned to chose my elements a little more carefully to be more emotionally invested.

By: Sarah Rowe

Painting by: Sarah Rowe 

What I have learned.

This painting was inspired by windmills and Monet's haystacks paintings. It influenced my subject matter because he did everyday things that you could go out and sit while painting. I loved how the windmill wasn't very detailed because of the sun setting in the background. It gave it a mysterious effect and I really enjoyed painting in such a loose style. I definitely think I will paint more in this kind of style it was very fun and it still turns out really well.

By: Ashley Rastetter

Painting by: Ashley Rastetter

What I have learned

After learning more about Monet, I decided to make a painting based on his series of his paintings of waterliles. I chose to do a picture that would show the impressionist style I was trying to convey. I used multible colors in the lily pads in a painterly manner to try and make it have an impressionist look to it. I used unmixed colors, like Monet would of to also get the highlights in the water and on the flowers.

By: Amelia Coblentz

Painting by: Amelia Coblentz

Early works

One of Monet's early paintings was Garden at Sainte-Adresse in 1867, when he was only 26 years old. He wanted to find new ways to shoe modern life in his paintings. Monet painted it from the garden in his aunt's seaside villa. In the painting he is trying to show the pleasures that the middle class enjoys. He used pure contrasting colors in patches all over the painting, which was typical for an impressionist's manner of painting(nga.gov.au).

Another early piece from Monet is The Beach at Sainte-Adresse. In this piece, Monet wanted to try and convey the different shifts of weather and light. His composition is mostly of sand, water, and sky. He did this piece and many other pieces while staying at his aunts villa in the summer of 1867. His main theme was tourism, which became a popular subject for impressionists to paint(The Art Institute of Chicago).

By: Amelia Coblentz

Bibliographies
The Art Institute of Chicago.2005.

<http://www.artic.edu/artexplorer/search.php?tab=2&resource=137>
http://nga.gov.au/monetjapan/Detail.cfm?WorkID=W95

Artistic Training

Claude Monet began his artistic training with his mentor Eugene Boudin when he was 16. Boudin was one of the first French landscape painters to start painting outdoors. Boudin taught Monet to paint some of his first landscapes, and the two formed a close bond.(triada.bg). After a few years, Monet left for Paris and studied at the Atelier Suisse, where he met Pissarro, who painted in a similar style. This helped to further Monet's education in impressionist style painting(Pioch, Nicolas). After his Aunt got him out of more military service, Monet moved home to Le Havre and joined a studio owned by Charles Gleyre. At the studio he met Frederic Bazille, Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley. This group helped to develop the style of impressionism by changing the way normal objects are painted, and by working out in the nature to try to capture it's beauty(triada.bg).

By: Amelia Coblentz

Bibliographieshttp://www.triada.bg/Gallery/Monet/Monetbio.htm
Pioch, Nicolas. "Monet" Web Museum.
September 19, 2002.
< http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/monet/>.

General info/Style/Period

Claude Monet was born November 14th, 1840. He went to Le Havre school of the arts when he was about 11 years old. This is where he became locally known for his caricatures. Eugene Boudin became his first mentor and was the one who taught him how to use oil paints. As Monet saw other painters coping the old masters, he simply painted what he saw. When the French-Prussian war broke out he took refuge in England, there he studied works of Joseph Turner. These works would later inspire Monet's studies of color and light. Monet soon became the father of the Impressionistic style in France. He painted mostly landscapes from different angles and different times during the day. Like other impressionists, he painted with tiny brushstrokes and let the texture of the paint take over. During this time period the early impressionists broke the rules of "academic" painting. The rules that said everything had to be very realistic and very accurate. Instead, these painters let their brushstrokes show and were very loose with the paint. They also used "broken" brush strokes, which are stokes of random colors placed next to each other to create an illusion of that color.

By:Ashley Rastetter

Artistic Philosophy

Monet has been well known for his Impressionist style paintings and for being one of the foundings artists of the Impressionist movement. This meant to Monet trying to capture the movement light gives to a subject. The movement began as some say from a painitng of Monet's titled "Impressionist Sunrise", (to the left). This came from the words critics had used to describe Monet's work saying it had looked like an impression of a finished painting. Impressionism was founded on light and movement and was only popular from the late 1860's to 1890's but even then Monet had still painted in his impressionist manor until his death in 1926.
By: Sarah Rowe
For more information on impressionism visit:
http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/c19th/impressionism.htm