Claude Monet portrait of a lady in a green dress. About Claude Monet, his meeting with Manet and a woman in a green dress. “When it’s dark, I feel like I’m dying, I can’t think anymore.”

"Woman in a Green Dress"

One of the most famous works Claude Monet 1860s -- "Woman in a Green Dress" (1866, Kunstheile, Bremen, Germany), depicting Camille Doncier. The artist works in realistic manner, uses a dark background against which the brightly lit face and hand of a young woman stand out. Such a sharp contrast of shaded and illuminated areas is reminiscent of Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro. The lyrical and at the same time intimate image is not intended for public viewing: the artist turns Camilla almost with her back to the viewer, she does not look for spectacular poses, leaving the opportunity to look at the hem of her long dress and the fur coat thrown over it. This work was positively received by critics and brought fame to the young Monet.

"Impression. Sunrise"

The subject of the image is the port of Le Havre, but it is only slightly indicated by brush strokes. So the viewer is invited not so much to look at him as to assume his mysterious outlines.

The painting was first exhibited in 1874, at the first independent exhibition of the Impressionists, who were not called that way back then. Critic Louis Leroy, inspired by the title of Monet's work, wrote a review ridiculing the exhibition, calling the artists impressionists. Or, to put it in Russian, impressed people. The material published in the newspaper “Le Charivari” was called “Exhibition of the Impressed”. Or, translated differently: “Exhibition of Impressionists.” Nowadays, everyone would just yawn after reading such a boring title, but in those years it sounded hilariously funny.

The Impressionists, as a sign of protest, took the nickname as the name of their group.

Canvas “Impression. Sunrise" was initially called "Maureen". In the traditional sense, it was not even a painting, but a freely written sketch, the compositional and semantic center of which is the orange ball of the rising sun. The artist did not strive to accurately recreate reality; he wanted to convey the momentary state of the atmosphere. In fact, everything seems to become intangible: the port mall and ships merge with the streaks in the sky and the reflection in the water, and the silhouettes of boats and fishermen in the foreground are just dark spots. The air seems to have a moving density, and objects do not have clear outlines. “I tried to do the impossible - to paint the light itself,” Claude Monet would later say.

The sun rises above the horizon. It burst into the darkness of the night like a bright orange ball and brought long-awaited light and warmth. Quick strokes, vague vague outlines of ships, an orange path on the water - most likely Claude Monet did not even know what role this painting would play in the history of painting. He simply transferred his impressions and childhood memories onto the canvas, filled with the rustling of waves at the pier, the smells of a noisy port and mother-of-pearl reflections on the water. However, by the will of fate this small painting not only gave its name to a new direction in painting, but also became its symbol.

Monet, like all impressionists, paid special attention to color. The sun in the painting “Impression” is as dim as the sky; this detail gives the viewer the idea of damp air and morning twilight. But all this, surprisingly, is written bright colors, and not by dimming the brightness, and not by contrasting the sun and the sky - this would be much more common. In addition, both the sun and its reflection in the water are written only in colors. If you convert the image to black and white, they almost disappear.

The Impression is currently housed in the Marmottan Museum, which boasts a collection of paintings by Claude Monet. In 1985, the masterpiece was stolen from the museum, but five years later it was found and returned. Since 1991, this painting has been on permanent display again.

“I don’t do miracles, I use and waste a lot of paint.”

Most of Monet's paintings seem to be saturated with the smells of fresh grass, flowers and warm summer. But out of all the summer diversity of Mother Nature, the artist gave preference to water lilies. He painted more than three hundred paintings depicting these flowers.

“Thanks to my work, everything is going well, this is a great consolation”

The painting “Camille, or Portrait of a Lady in a Green Dress,” painted from Camille Doncieux, brought Claude Monet extraordinary fame. A little later, the heroine of the picture married the artist and began to appear on his canvases with enviable regularity.

Unfortunately, the lovers' happiness did not last long. At 32, Camilla dies of tuberculosis, and a stricken impressionist paints her portrait on her deathbed.

"I can only draw what I see"

The creation of great paintings was hampered by many life circumstances of Claude Monet. For example, deprivation of the lens in the left eye and practical loss of vision. Despite this, the artist continued to paint, and having regained his sight, he began to see ultraviolet as blue or lilac color, causing his paintings to take on new colors.

“When it’s dark, I feel like I’m dying, I can’t think anymore.”

Your "footprint" French artist left not only on earth, but also on Mercury, where one of the planet’s craters was named in honor of the impressionist.

“Happy are those young people who think it’s easy”

The term “impressionism” belongs entirely to Claude Monet, or rather to his painting “Impression. Rising Sun”, which first saw the light at the “Rebel Exhibition”.

“It took me a while to understand my water lilies.”

One of the impressionist paintings takes ninth place in the ranking of the most expensive paintings peace. “Water Lily Pond” sold for $80 million at a London auction.

“I only think about my painting, and if I had to give it up, I think I’d go crazy.”

Claude Monet is one of the most expensive artists in the whole world, taking a well-deserved 3rd place in this ranking. Only Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol were able to overtake him.

“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary, when you just need to love”

“Monet is silent,” Edmond de Goncourt spoke of the artist, “but how eloquent is the look of his black eyes!”

“I have done nothing in my life except look at what the world showed me in order to capture it with my brush.”

Because of the bright landscapes and summer flowers, the artist is popularly called the “man of the sun.”

“The color black always irritated him incredibly. In the end he simply banished it from his palette.

- Black is not a color! - he exclaimed with rage"

Michel de Decker is a journalist, writer, author of many biographical studies, who created a biography of Claude Monet, which included many quotes and statements by the artist.

The story of their difficult love served as the basis for Emile Zola’s novel “Creativity”; the image of his beloved was embodied in his numerous paintings. And fame itself came to Monet after he painted her portrait: “Camilla, or portrait of a lady in a green dress.”
K. Monet.

"Woman with an Umbrella"

This brush is a fiery soft brush.

It’s not written with paints - with lights!

Field of furious poppies,

The sky is azure above us.

In the azure - a poppy umbrella,

And in poppies - an azure dress,

Like blue heat on the horizon,

It sways and burns.

Here's the sky with bare feet

He walks reverently among the poppies,

The earth is in the sky above us

It goes away like a bloody stain.

And it is clear that everything earthly

He strives for the ideal!

The sky itself is so hot,

He is languishing from the earthly heat.

Ilya Selvinsky.

These poems involuntarily come to mind when you look at the paintings of Claude Monet.

Oscar Claude Monet (Oscar-Claude Monet, 1840 - 1926) is a French artist, he stood at the origins of impressionism and subsequently became its prominent representative. Working on the creation of his paintings in nature, he achieved amazing accuracy in the transmission of light, air and the entire environment. reality.

Monet was born in Paris. Later his family moved to Le Havre. His parents dreamed that Claude would continue their business and become a grocer, but the boy was drawn to painting from childhood and was captivated by this magical world. It was there, on the coasts of Normandy, that Claude met Eugene Boudin, who became his inspiration and, in fact, the first teacher who taught him some of the subtleties and techniques of working on location.

While serving in the army in Algeria, Claude Monet fell ill with typhus, but thanks to the intervention of his relatives, he was safely mobilized and returned home. Studying at the university on a painting course, where he entered after the army, he was disappointed with its traditional approach and he left there, soon entering the studio of Charles Gleyre.

When Monet met in 1865 Camilla-Leonia Doncieux (Camille-Leonix Doncieux, 1847 - September 5, 1879), he was poor (disappointed parents did not want to help him), a little-known artist. Thus began their love story, which lasted until Camilla's death.

Monet's parents were against the girl, and for a long time Claude hid their relationship, hid the fact that Camille became his everything: lover, assistant, housewife, muse, and later wife and mother of two children.

They lived very poorly; fame and prosperity, as often happens in life, came difficult to him. The need was so strong that at times Monet had to scrape paint from previous paintings to create new ones. Camille, with her refined beauty, became the model for many of Monet’s paintings: “Women in the Garden”, “Camille Monet with her Son Jean” (Woman with an Umbrella), “Camille with a Little Dog”, “Camille Monet at the Window”, “Camille Monet in the Garden bench", "Camilla on the beach in Trouville", "Camilla Monet in the garden with Jean and his nanny", "Woman embroidering" (Portrait of Camille).

Their love was not cloudless.

“The daughter of the petty bourgeoisie of Lyon, Camille received a small dowry, which, soon after the wedding, during the crisis of 1874, was squandered by her husband. A beautiful girl with a gentle character, she equally accepted the ups and downs in her husband's career, in difficult times without complaining about the cold in the unheated apartment and the meager diet, which consisted only of stale bread and milk; She did not complain even when she was abandoned by her careless husband without money on the eve of giving birth to the mercy of fate.”

Seeing or wearing a white dress in a dream foretells heartfelt joy and an imminent marriage.

Green dress - to the fulfillment of hopes; blue or blue - you have to hit the road;

Dress yellow color- a sign of lies, envy and gossip;

Red - for an important visit; gray - get busy spring cleaning or repair;

Golden – get help from sponsors; multi-colored and motley - for many entertainments;

Pale - you will rest your soul in peace and quiet; black dress portends sad news that will lead you into severe upset.

A dream in which a dress that is too short or tight, or the wrong size, foreshadows a deterioration in affairs in all areas. A long dress reaching to the toes means condemnation of others for an unseemly act.

To sew a dress for yourself - your hard work will be rewarded, and if it is sewn for you in an atelier, you will face meetings that will not bring joy, and luck that will turn into disappointment.

Buying a ready-made dress means reconciliation after a long disagreement.

If in a dream you try on a dress, this portends obtaining a profitable place or occupation that promises a side income that will exceed the main one.

A beautifully tailored dress means that in reality you will become bored with the lifestyle you lead and want a change.

A beautiful luxurious dress, and also a very expensive one, which you see on yourself in a dream, is a sign of joyful events in the family circle.

Seeing an ugly or wretched dress on someone predicts troubles threatening from a rival.

An unkempt, wrinkled or dirty dress means that real life you are about to meet a person for whom you have an insurmountable hostility.

A torn dress means squabbles and disagreements at work; a patched one means a lot of trouble, difficulties and the possibility of losing property.

A dress with frills suggests that you will soon experience a completely extraordinary romantic adventure.

A dress with a belt - deprive of freedom and material independence, with lace, ruffles and other frills - a sign that in reality you should be guided by more common sense rather than emotions and whims.

A velvet dress in a dream means many fans in real life.

A dress covered in sequins portends an acquaintance with a smug and arrogant suitor for your hand, who, naturally, will be immediately rejected.

Wash or iron a dress - for an upcoming date.

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Oscar Claude Monet - great French impressionist, whose name is familiar even to people far from art. He remained in history not only as a person who, since the 19th century, has been confused with his colleague and compatriot Edouard Manet, but also as an amateur to convey atmosphere and color in a picture, albeit at the expense of details.

Monet was born in Paris on February 14, 1840 and early childhood was fond of drawing. Later his family moved to Normandy, to the city of Le Havre, located on the right bank of the Seine. Young Monet was not very disciplined and preferred to spend his time not at school, but on the rocks and near the water.

During class, he amused himself by drawing caricatures of teachers, and these drawings greatly delighted his classmates. Having honed his skills, by the age of 17 Monet had become a fairly well-known caricaturist in the city and began charging money for portraits. So young artist landscape painter Eugene Boudin noted.

After meeting, Monet avoided meeting with Boudin: he did not like the landscape painter’s paintings, and each time the young man found excuses not to go to a joint plein air. But the first impression turned out to be wrong. Boudin became a teacher for Monet and showed the aspiring artist the basic techniques of painting from life.

After the death of his mother, Monet decided to move to Paris to become a great artist. His father was categorically against it: painting seemed to him a stupid activity, and he wanted his son to work in the family shop. But thanks to the support of Boudin and his aunt, Monet’s move took place.

At first young artist attended the Charles Suisse Academy, located on the Quai d'Orfevre. Then he went to Algeria to serve in the ranks of the First Regiment of African Rifles. Then he joined the Academy of Glare, famous for his Lost Illusions. The title suited both the painting itself and his studio perfectly.

There Monet met Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Frédéric Bazille and Camille Pissarro. They were about the same age, and their similar views on painting made them friends.

To earn a living and not depend on his family, Monet decided to sell paintings. To do this, he needed to exhibit at the Salon, where idealizing academicism and paintings on historical themes were preferred to realism and landscapes.

In 1863, a significant event occurred. An uncompromising jury rejected 2,783 works from 442 artists who wanted to exhibit at the Salon. As a result, the rejected works became a separate exhibition for the amusement of the public. It was there that Monet first saw Manet's painting, and it inspired him.

When old man Gleyre closed his workshop due to illness and fear of ruin, Monet and his friends left Paris for the city of Chailly-en-Bières near Fontainebleau.

There Monet painted a portrait of his beloved Camille Doncieux, which brought him real fame. The canvas was exhibited at the Salon and was warmly received by the public and critics.

Despite his success, Monet found himself in a difficult financial situation. Creditors intended to take his paintings as payment for a debt. This prompted Monet to destroy two hundred of his paintings.

A little later, Monet found out that Camille was pregnant. The artist's father and aunt, having learned about his relationship with a girl without a dowry, demanded that she leave. Monet returned to his relatives, leaving Camille all his savings. When the baby was born, the impressionist acknowledged his paternity, although he was absent during the birth.

Monet painted until exhaustion to improve his financial position, but the paintings did not sell. He returned to Camille and his son, and the family moved to Le Havre. There Monet found a patron of the arts and began painting portraits of his wife and relatives.

Claude did not stop painting other paintings, but they were never accepted at the Salon. Poverty and debt led the artist to a dead end, and then Renoir appeared on Monet’s doorstep again. He inspired the artist to continue working and find his own style.

After the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, Monet left for England so as not to go to the front. Upon returning to France, he writes his famous landscape"Impression. Rising Sun" (“Impression”). This painting gave its name to the group of impressionists and an entire artistic movement.

At the end of December 1871, Monet moved to the village of Argenteuil, where Parisians loved to stroll. He lived there until 1878 and painted some of his most famous paintings.

In 1878, Monet and Camille had a second son. The family moved to the village of Veteil, but in 1879 the artist’s beloved woman, muse and model died. Monet painted her posthumous portrait.

In 1880, Monet again sent his works to the jury of the Salon. To his surprise, they chose the most impressionistic of them, “View of the Seine, Lavacourt.” And then Monet realized: something had changed. People were no longer so cruel to his work. They began to become interested in Monet's paintings, and later their prices began to rise.

For many years, Monet was helped by Alice Hoschedé to run the household and raise her children; the artist met her even before Camille’s death. Alice herself had five children from her spendthrift husband, who later died.

After the death of her husband, Hoschede married an impressionist, and together they moved to the town of Giverny, 80 km northwest of Paris.

Monet lived long life, burying their close friends and family members. Alice died in 1911, and her eldest son Jean died in 1914. Between these tragic events, Claude Monet was diagnosed with double cataracts. He underwent two operations, lost the lens in his left eye, began to see colors differently, but did not stop drawing.

The famous “Water Lilies” were painted by Monet during this period. The artist saw the flowers as bluish when ordinary people they were just white.

Claude Monet died of cancer on December 5, 1926 in Giverny at the age of 86. He was buried in the local church cemetery.

The article was prepared based on the materials of the graphic novel “Monet. On the other side of the canvas" (18+) publishing house "Mann, Ivanov and Ferber".