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30. MONET, Claude
Oscar Claude Monet, French painter, is generally considered to be the most outstanding figure
among Impressionists.
Monet was using the short brush strokes, which often looked rather like spots of paint, not lines.
For this reason his paintings seemed to some people messy and unfinished. Often, when you
looked at his painting from a short distance you couldn't see what it was, but if you stepped away
you could see a beautiful scene.
This was a completely new way of painting that became the mark of Impressionism. Monet was
enormously prolific and many major galleries have examples of his work. Through his life Monet
painted about 2500 paintings.
For many years Monet's and other Impressionists' paintings were not understood and rejected by
people of that time. But finally by the end of century the new way of painting became liked and
popular. Impressionism enriched art, and taught people to be open and ready to welcome and
enjoy the new styles.
Claude Monet, as the leader of Impressionists, made this success possible in the big part. Without
Claude Monet art would probably never become so interesting, and full of light, and beau
31. MONET, Claude
Impression, Sunrise
1873
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
In France, public and critics both had a great deal of fun at the expense of
the independent exhibitions organized in Paris. It was a journalist, Alfred
Leroy, who coined the nickname "Impressionist," having used the word in
his famous satirical article in Charivari on April 25, 1874.
The trigger had been a work that Monet had painted in Le Havre two years
earlier and that was listed in the catalog as Impression, Sunrise (Impression,
soleil levant). As early as 1877, the initially pejorative term was adopted by
the artists themselves and used as a rallying cry.