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What Were the Main Features of Impressionist Style of Painting and What Contribution did Claude Monet Make to it. ... Some of the greatest impressionist artists were Eduardo Manet, Camille Pissaro, Edgar Degas, Alfred Sisley, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot and Pierre Auguste Renoir. ...
A leading figure in the late-19th-century impressionism was Claude Monet. Monet’s paintings captured scenes of middle-class life and the ever-changing qualities of sunlight in nature. His technique of applying bright, unmixed colours in quick, short strokes became a hallmark of impressionism.
The son of a successful tradesman in marine supplies, Monet grew up in Le Havre on the Normandy coast. ... Monet also admired French realist artists Gustavo Courbet and Honoré Daumier. ... Monet received crucial early guidance from two artists who specialized in painting seascapes out-of-doors, Eugène Boudin, a fellow painter from Le Havre, and Dutch artist Johan Barthold Jongkind, whom Monet met in 1862. The unusual viewpoints, and broad areas of bright colour in Japanese woodblock prints also influenced Monet’s work. ... After serving briefly in the French military in Algeria, Monet joined a Parisian studio run by Charles Gabriel Gleyre in 1862. ... In Gleyre’s studio Monet met several artists who would become fellow impressionists, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Frédéric Bazille. Bazille, who came from a wealthy family, gave Monet regular financial support during the 1860s.
In 1865 Monet had his first works—two ambitious seascapes—accepted by the Salon, a juried art exhibition sponsored annually by the official French Academy of Fine Arts.
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