French Painters

This section of the French Painters lens is for Claude Monet. See his store here. You will get to know him if you do not know him.

However, if you know him, drop us some lines about one or two of his artworks. I consider him as the inventor of the Impressionism in fine arts the day I saw his paintings in some locations in Iraq, Kuwait and at the Alliance Francaise while I was student there. I saw more of his artworks in Denmark too.

Well, some critics say that Claude Monet has marked the birth of the artistic movement, The Impressionist, by his painting Impression Sunrise. One of the critics wrote an article entitled L'Exposition des Impressionistes when that painting appeared to the public. The painting provided the critic by the key of enlightenment to criticize that artworks Monet has achieved.

When the Impressionist painters offered their pictures to the public for the first time in the 1870s and just before the critic has published that article about the Impression Sunrise, the public disapproved the Impressionist painters. Thus, the article has proved to be the enticing element that makes the calm water flew.

The artistic movement of the Impressionists had established itself, pointed the new arts way forward by the turn of the century, and then enjoyed great interests from the public up to the present days.

The critic and the public regarded Claude Monet as the most important Impressionist, when his landscapes rocked their feelings and embodied their thoughts in the Impressionist paintings. The Impressionism as a theory in arts states that we do not see an object as such and just an object, but rather the light in which it appears to us.

For instance, Monet painted the portal of Rouen Cathedral at various times of day and under different weather conditions. Those paintings of the Cathedral together make us feel how the changing light affects its appearance.

The ever-changing, ever-moving spectacle of the sea had fascinated Claude Monet since his childhood in Le Havre. Therefore, he used to return continuously to the coast of Normandy in order to paint there.

Claude Monet had much concerns to give permanency via the picture to the instant of a particular natural manifestation. He executed his paintings of the sea and of his motifs - landscapes, flowers and ultimately the water lilies in his best picture from Giverny - to impose such concerns.

It was in his opinion that aim was "the task of the artist to represent what stands between the object and the artist, which is the beauty of the atmosphere, the impossible."

Claude Monet came through his paintings closer to this unattainable aim than almost anyone else did.

Madame Monet and Her Son

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Madame Monet in Her Garde...

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Monet's Daughter Painting in a Landscape

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Artist's Garden Vetheuil

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When I considered this topic long time ago, I thought about being in every school in arts, and asked myself, is it a comma or phenomenon?

Is it possible ever for anyone who has some concerns about arts to be Impressionist, Surrealist, Romantic and Social Realistic all together?

Well, I do not know. I know only that changing between arts schools, or anything a person uses to do in his life, happens during the period of teenage and stops at forty. People know of course that experiences deliver great deal of awareness.

What brings my attention to this statement is actual observation in the media of the arts. It is well known that during the composition of maturity many things change frequently. People in the change could not see this action at the time, because their focus will be on what they were doing at that moment, not on analyzing what they were doing. Here at this point exactly comes the critique in arts.

It is just at this point, as it happens, any mentor and even any father could come to say to his kids or talents "I am telling you about it now so as to earn you some years of experiences and to narrow your way to maturity". They could say also, "I am saying it to help you avoid those blocks I came through".

Edouard Manet is a French painter who was born in Paris on 23 January 1832 and died on 30 April 1883. He was one of the first nineteenth century artists to work on modern life subjects on his paintings.

Manet was one of the essential figures in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. His early masterworks "Olympia" and "The Luncheon on the Grass" aroused great controversy and worked as challenging points for young painters to get involved in a movement to create the Impressionism.

See the complete store of the French Impressionist painter Edouard Manet here. Read more about him below.

The Impressionists - Edouard Manet - ...

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Edouard Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'her...

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The Garden Around Manet's...

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The Fifer

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Olympia, 1863

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The Dream, 1888

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There is no better choice, when you visit exhibitions to see works of French painters, than to hear French music. Since this is a semi online exhibition, enjoy hearing those French songs.

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