Impressionist Paintings Synonymous to Monet – Canvas Prints Hand Painted
“Dusk in Venice”, “Sunset in Venice” or “Venice in Twilight”.
These names are some of the titles given to describe Monet’s San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk. Most people even the non-art aficionados remember the oil painting valued at one hundred million dollars that Pierce Brosnan stole in the blockbuster movie, Thomas Crown Affair. The painting was nowhere near that price in the real world but Monet’s fame has increased a million times over as the pop generation got the chance to know his works.
Claude Monet (1840-1926) was a leading French Impressionist who studied in Charles Gleyre Paris studio where he met another famous painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir along with Frderic Bazille and Alfred Sisley. They all tried to develop new ways of painting and Monet has developed the approach of “plein-air” or “in the open air” landscape painting.
Monet was even considered the founder of French Impressionist painting. The word, Impressionism was coined from one of the titles of his early works, “Impression, Sunrise” by one of the leading art critics of their time, Louis Leroy. It was meant to belittle their group and their works. However, the artists led by Monet just took it and began using it to describe their art movement.
Monet said that, “Landscape is nothing but impression and an instantaneous one, hence this label that was given us.”
From all his works, the “Le basin aux nympheas”, a 1919 painting of Monet’s beloved water lilies which was done in series, proved to be his most valuable painting up to this date as it was sold for an outstanding amount of $80,451,178 in an auction conducted by Christie’s in New York.
Good thing these days, you need not go and plan a heist to get your own Monet. Check our online gallery and choose the one that started it all, Monet’s Impression, Sunrise. If not for you then it can be a perfect gift for anyone.
October 21 2009 04:46 pm | Famous Reproduction Art
Loading ...