Boudin taught Monet "en plein air" (outdoor) techniques for painting. Although the subject of the painting is ostensibly the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, the painting is all about capturing the beauty of the light at sunset. ![]() On the beaches of Normandy in about 1856/1857 he meet fellow artist Eugéne Boudin who became his mentor and taught him to use oil paints. Monet also undertook his first drawing lessons from Jacques-Francois Ochard, a former student of Jacques-Louis David. ![]() He became known locally for this charcoal caricatures, which he would sell for ten to twenty francs. The original painting is oil on canvas and the dimension is 65.2cm x 92.4cm. This popular view from Venice was the site of the famous 1908 painting from Claude Monet titled San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk. On the first of April 1851, Monet entered the Le Havre secondary school of the arts. The painting is owned by National Museum Cardiff, the national art gallery of Wales. He was the second son Claude Adolphe Monet and Louise-Justine Aubree. Monet observed variations of color and light caused by the daily or seasonal changes.Ĭlaude Monet was born on Novemon the fifth floor of 45 rue Laffitte,in the ninth arrondissement of Paris. ![]() Monet rejected the traditional approach to landscape painting and instead of copying old masters he had been learning from his friends and the nature itself. Oscar-Claude Monet (1840-1926) is a famous French painter and one of the founders of the Impressionism movement along with his friends Renoir, Sisley and Bazille.
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