Monet exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris

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In Paris, opened the largest in the last thirty years, an exhibition of paintings by Claude Monet (1840, Paris, 1926, Giverny). The exhibition of the famous impressionist artist presents about 200 paintings by the great master. The exposition in the Great Exhibition Palace "Grand Palais". Masterpieces brought from around the world, both from the public museums and private collections.

Two paintings were taken to Paris from the Hermitage. One of them - "The Woman in the Garden" - became an emblem of the exhibition.

Monet is considered the most expensive impressionist painter. Two years ago, one of the variations of the famous work "A pond with water lilies," sold for a record sum of 80 million euros. http://www.1tv.ru/news/culture/161597

The exhibition runs until January 24, 2011

- Claude Monet's "Woman in the Garden", 1867, the Hermitage.

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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.

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Claude Monet continued to refine the method open to them in the numerous sketches that he wrote in the paddling pool - a favorite holiday destination of Parisians. He went there with Renoir, leaving the forest of Fontainebleau, which served as kind to the School of Barbizon. In the 'paddling pool, "Claude Monet wanted to show the surrounding life in all its diversity: a game of solar flares on the surface of the water waving, crowded motley crowd of travelers, which dissolves in the landscape and makes him a whole (" frog ", 1869, National Gallery, London).

The tragic events of 1870-1871. Claude Monet was forced to emigrate to London, where he made the trip to Holland. On his return from there began the most fruitful period in his work, in the years 1872-1873. he created some of the finest paintings - "Lilacs in the Sun" (1873, Pushkin Museum, Moscow), "Boulevard des Capucines" (1873, Pushkin Museum, Moscow), "Field of Poppies at Argenteuil" (1873, Musée d'Orsay, Paris), "Impression . Sunrise "(1872, Museum Marmottan, Paris), etc. In 1874, some of these paintings were exhibited at the famous exhibition, organized by the Anonymous Society of Painters, Painters and Engravers," the head of which was Claude Monet. After this show, named after the paintings of Monet's "Impression. Sunrise, artists and organizers, and got the name" Impressionists "(from the French. Impression - an impression).

Paintings by Claude Monet:
- "Frog", 1869, the National Gallery, London.
- "Lilacs in the Sun", 1873, Pushkin Museum, Moscow.
- "Boulevard des Capucines, 1873, Pushkin Museum, Moscow.
- "Poppy Field at Argenteuil, 1873, Musee d'Orsay, Paris.
- "Impression. Sunrise", 1872, the Museum Marmottan, Paris.

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The fact that I was always amazed in the works of Monet, so it is two things: It is his undeniable diversity, no kostnosti or frozen scheme, the constant search for new expressive means, and second-fearlessness in the way that someone could think to say, etc. . compromises and pure creativity, gone from the "real impressionnizma, which bored him, in the field of abstract painting ideas.

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Settling in Argenteuil (Argenteuil, near Paris), Claude Monet, with such enthusiasm writes Sen, its bridges, sliding over the water sailing, that he builds his own boat, which descends to the very Rouen and there, amazed by what he saw, reproduces in his sketches neighborhood of the city and entering the mouth of the river ships ("Argenteuil", 1872, the National Gallery of Art, Washington; "Sailing Boat in Argenteuil", 1873-1874, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, etc.).

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More pictures on this topic:

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Paintings by Claude Monet painted at Argenteuil (Argenteuil):

- "Camille Monet in the Garden, 1873.

- "Artists' House in Argenteuil", 1873.

- Camille Monet with a child in the Garden, 1875.

- "Breakfast in the Garden, 1873.

- "Walk. Camille Monet and son Jean (Woman with Umbrella)", 1875, the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

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Self-portrait by Claude Monet, painted in 1886 (private collection, Paris):

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Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir in the image:

- Claude Monet reading a newspaper, "1872.

- Claude Monet's reading, 1873-1874.

- "Portrait of Claude Monet, 1875.

- "Claude Monet wrote in his garden at Argenteuil, 1875.

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Edouard Manet:

- "The Family: Monet in the Garden, 1874.

- Boat-studio of Claude Monet, 1874.