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Claude Monet (Claude Monet) was born November 14, 1840 in Paris. When he was five years old, the family moved to Normandy, Le Havre. My father wanted to Claude became a grocer and joined the family business, but the son was fond childhood visual arts, in particular with pleasure drew cartoons and put it in the window gavrskogo okantovschika.
The first lessons in painting, Claude Monet was a landscape painter Eugene Boudin, wandering with it along the coast of Normandy and grasping techniques for working outdoors.

Contrary to the wishes of parents who wanted him to be admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts, the young Claude Monet, appeared in the capital, with the head goes into the bohemian life and tying numerous acquaintances in an artistic environment. Deprived of material support to relatives, he is forced to go into the army, but after his return from Algeria where he held a hard service, he has not changed his lifestyle. In Paris he met with I. Ionkindom, who drew his work on nature studies. At the urging of parents, Claude Monet spent some time working in Tulmusha, and then workshop popular at the time Sh Gleyra, but the formation of his creative method is still not in the studio and to work together in nature with close to him in the spirit of the artists. This is primarily by Renoir, F. Basile, A. Sisley, who, inspired by example, E. Manet, looking my way of conditional perfection officially recognized by the art to the truth of life.

The first significant work, summarizing the creative exploration of this period, began to Claude Monet's "Breakfast on the Grass" (1865-1866) was written after the program of the same name by E. Manet. The work itself did not reach us: the artist left it in payment for housing in the village of Chailly, around which he worked. Picture stored in a damp basement, and therefore preserved only partially. Retained its smaller version, which allows a general idea of the picture. The plot is simple: on the edge of the forest is home to several well-dressed men and women. Model for female figures served as a beloved Monet, Camille, and for men - Frederic Bazille. Juicy dark-green range with a splash of brown and black like the tradition of Barbizon school, but unlike them the gathering dusk, and motion "wet" beautiful atmosphere, arising from the nuances of tone letters, canvases are filled with clear, exquisite in their everyday life and the reality of air.

To convey both the medium of light, it was necessary not only to go on nature, but also a new way to see things by abandoning the rules that were taught when working in the workshops, and fully trust his vision. "Forget" the underlying principles of academic painting as a picture and a gradual transition from light to shadow, Claude Monet makes and shapes the landscape of the distributions of the light spots, shades and colors which depend only on the lighting, there are no clear outlines of objects: they are like greased slight movement of air. Sensation of air flow increases and the very texture of the picture: it ceases to be smooth, but consists of individual spots, brush strokes.

A smaller version of the painting "Breakfast on the Grass," which Monet wanted to win the Salon, is now in Moscow.

- Claude Monet's "Breakfast on the Grass", 1865, x. /M, 130 x 181 cm, Pushkin Museum. AS Pushkin, Moscow.