Coming home to Le Havre after his service, his "final education of the eye" was provided by the Dutch landscape and marine artist Johan Jongkind. Like Eugène Delacroix before him, the north African environment stimulated Monet and affected his artistic and personal outlook. Obliged to serve in the military, in 1861 Monet was sent to Algiers. ![]() Oil on canvas - Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris These works would be enormously influential for many artists, but the all over composition would particularly inspire the Abstract Expressionist large-scale canvases of The New York School. The lighting and setup in the museum maximizes the viewers' experience next to these works, providing, as Monet said, an "illusion of an endless whole, of a wave with no horizon and no shore". The silence and calm of the water reflecting the flowering display the tones are vague, deliciously nuanced, as delicate as a dream." The ultimate installation is considered to be one of the greatest achievement of Monet, Impressionism, and even 20 th-century art. Walls of transparency - sometimes green, sometimes verging on mauve. Monet describes his goals for the project: "Imagine a circular room, whose walls are entirely filled by a horizon of water spotted with these plants. The most famous of this series are the eight large panels of Water Lillies that are installed in two eliptical rooms of the L'Orangerie museum in Paris. This series occupied Monet until his death 30 years later and includes dozens of canvases creating a panorama of water, lilies, and sky in his studio inspired by his Giverny garden. In fact, it is also a scientific term for a water lily. As explained on the Musée de l'Orangerie website: the word nymphéa comes from the Greek word numphé, meaning nymph, which takes its name from the Classical myth that attributes the birth of the flower to a nymph who was dying of love for Hercules. The Nymphéas cycle is a part of Monet's water landscape group that he started working on in the late 1890s. ![]() Oil on canvas - Museums of Fine Arts, Boston Not only has it been a way for artists to explore subtle difference between subjects, but some artists reference Monet directly in their series works. ![]() As art historian Madalena Dabrowski wrote: "the site is a reference point, but is transformed and conditioned by light, color, and Monet's own vision." Painting in a series, or making any kind of artwork with subtle changes from one piece to the next has been a staple of modern art for many artists, from Andy Warhol to the Minimalists, to Conceptual artists. In 1895, he exhibited twenty Cathedrals at the Durand-Ruel Gallery that were both criticized and praised by viewers that either struggled with or championed his artistic, scientific, and poetic innovations. Layered over the top of the Gothic structure, the brushstrokes play with the light and atmosphere on the stones, and the details on their carved surfaces. The burnt orange and blue appearance of the cathedral dominates the canvas, with only scattered views of sky at the top. He painted the cathedral at different times of day to explore the effects of different light during winter. Monet's Rouen Cathedral: The Facade at Sunset series is one of his most renowned. He was also important in establishing the exhibition society that would showcase the group's work between 18.ġ894 Rouen Cathedral: The Facade at Sunset An inspiration and a leader among the Impressionists, he was crucial in attracting Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Édouard Manet and Camille Pissarro to work alongside each other in and around Paris. ![]() The effects that he achieved, particularly in the series paintings of the 1890s, represent a remarkable advance towards abstraction and towards a modern painting focused purely on surface effects. He began to apply paint in smaller strokes, building it up in broad fields of color, and exploring the possibilities of a decorative paint surface of harmonies and contrasts of color.
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