Exposion: Monet: Impression, Sunrise, 7 June-1 September 2019, National Gallery of Australia21/4/2019
Title: Monet: Impression, Sunrise Time: 7 June - 1 September 2019 Place: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia  Claude Monet, On the Beach at Trouville, 1870–71, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, France  Claude Monet (1840-1926) Claude Monet was born in Paris on November 14, 1840 but his family moved to Le Havre in 1845 where he passed his early years, and showed strong interest and talent in drawing. In 1859, Claude Monet went to Paris with the encouragement of his friend Eugène Boudin to study painting.  Eugène Boudin (1824-1898) It was also Boudin, who encouraged Claude Monet to paint outdoor in the open air.( "En plain air") "It was Boudin", said Monet, "who initiated me... He revealed me to myself and started me on the right path". And from then on he spent "… his life expressing his own instinctive way of seeing"  Le Havre, coucher de soleil à mer basse (Le Havre, sunset at low sea) by Eugène Boudin 1884 In 1872, Claude Monet finished his painting Port du Have: Impression, Soleil levant ( Impression, Sunrise). Two years later, in 1874, Claude Monet and his artist friends held their own show for the first time, and Monet's painting Impression, Sunrise, was among the paintings on show.  Port du Havre:Impression, Soleil levant 1872 Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, France One of the Critics at the time, Louis Leroy for Le Charivari, wrote an article "The Impressionist Exhibition" in the form of a dialogue from the imaginary perspective of an old-fashioned painter, shocked at the works of Monet and his associates: -...What is this a painting of? Look in the catalogue. -Impression, Sunrise. -Impression-- I knew it. I was just saying to myself, if I'm impressed, there must be an impression in there… And what freedom, what ease in the brushwork! Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more labored than this seascape! And without realising it, Leroy gave the name to one of the most famous art movement in the history: Impressionism.  Claude Monet, (1840-1926), Autumn Effect at Argenteuil, 1873, The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London Together with Monet's own paintings, the explosion will also include some paintings by other artists who have influenced Claude Monet like JMW Turner and Eugène Boudin, or who are related to him like Alfred Sisley and James McNeill Whistler.  Alfred Sisley, Spring in the Environs of Paris, Apple Blossom, 1879, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, France Comments are closed.
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