![]() An online scholarly publication delves into the museum’s collection of Monet’s paintings and drawings. Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise, oil on canvas, 1872. This renowned work of art which illustrates a view of the port of Le Havre in north-western France is considered to be one of Monet’s most poetic expressions of his engagement with France’s. The Art Institute has the largest group of Monet’s stacks of wheat in the world. Throughout the years, Claude Monet’s Impression, Sunrise has been celebrated as the quintessential symbol of the Impressionist Movement. While Monet’s series paintings appear compositionally simple, the artist adapted his palette and brushwork to each temporal situation, conveying the complexity of color, light, and texture on each canvas. As he described, “One instant, one aspect of nature contains it all.” Only by working in series could Monet truly render, as he put it, “what I experience”-in other words, how he perceived and responded to these subjects, which were defined by light and air as time passed and the seasons changed. Another favorite subject, meules (stacks of wheat sometimes referred to as “haystacks”), were for Monet a resonant symbol of sustenance and survival-constructed by humans but created by nature. Impression: Sunrise shares its name with the movement that Monet was the leader of and it makes it one of his most important early works. The scene is a natural look at the docks in the town and is a concentration on the effects of the sun on the sea. He painted his beloved water lilies in Giverny, where he tended to a water garden and a small pond spanned by a Japanese footbridge. Claude Monet painted Impression: Sunrise in 1872 in Le Havre, France. It had evolved over nearly two centuries at least. Purchased 1947, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. But this idea did not appear like a flash when Monet painted Impression: Sunrise at 7.35am on 13 November 1872. ![]() Nocturne in grey and silver, the Thames 1872-74. Monet’s Impression, Sunrise, is still displayed at the Musée Marmottan Monet, enthralling visitors with its vibrant color palette and expressive brushwork. Gift of Eugène and Victorine Donop de Monchy 1940, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris. ![]() In the early years he painted the forests of Fountainbleau, Parisian boulevards, suburban villages along the Seine, seaside towns, and flowering fields, and later, after buying a house at Giverny northwest of Paris, stacks of wheat and water lilies. Monet was a proponent of plein air painting, working directly out-of-doors on compositions he would later revise and sometimes complete in his studio. Impression, sunrise Impression, soleil levant 1872. Impression, sunrise Impression, soleil levant 1872. He favored family and friends as models, often working and exhibiting alongside fellow artists. Throughout his long career, Monet portrayed the people closest to him and the places he knew best. Claude Monet was a pioneer of the French artistic movement known as Impressionism. ![]()
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