Claude Monet
1840–1926 · painter · France
Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of Impressionism who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of Impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions of nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise, which was exhibited in 1874 at the First Impressionist Exhibition, initiated by Monet and a number of like-minded artists as an alternative to the Salon.
Read more on WikipediaThe world around them · Paris, 1870s
- Who governs
- The Third Republic is new and fragile. Monarchists hold a majority in parliament until 1877.
- Everyday life
- Most French people still live in the countryside. Paris is being rebuilt along Haussmann's wide boulevards.
- Arts and ideas
- The Impressionists show outside the official Salon, and Zola is writing his Rougon-Macquart novels.
- Meanwhile
- Germany has just united under Prussia, and Japan is racing to modernise.
Their life in their time
- 1840
- 18488 years old
- 185212 years old
- 185212 years oldCézanne and Zola meet at school
- 187030 years old
- 187434 years oldThe first Impressionist exhibitionexhibitor
- 187535 years oldCarmen opens at the Opéra-Comique
- 188646 years oldZola publishes L'Œuvre
- 189858 years oldZola publishes “J'accuse…!”
- 192686 years oldDies
Connected to
- PC
Paul Cézanne · exhibitor
1874 The first Impressionist exhibition. Monet, Cézanne and Morisot show work at the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris.
Source: wikipedia:Impressionism - BM
Berthe Morisot · exhibitor
1874 The first Impressionist exhibition. Monet, Cézanne and Morisot show work at the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris.
Source: wikipedia:Impressionism - KH
Katsushika Hokusai · collector and printmaker
1883 Monet's collection of Japanese prints at Giverny holds 23 by Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa among them.
Source: wikipedia:Fondation_Claude_Monet - UH
Utagawa Hiroshige · collector and printmaker
1883 Monet's collection of Japanese prints at Giverny holds 48 by Hiroshige.
Source: wikipedia:Fondation_Claude_Monet - GC
Georges Clemenceau · friends
1884 Clemenceau bought Monet's paintings by 1884 and stayed a friend Monet confided in about his work.
Source: wikipedia:Claude_Monet
