http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/117770-artists-who-changed-the-art-world-monet
This class would talk about Monet. Impressionist with some awesome paintings of flowers and scenery. Monet used rich colors and created scenes that captured the life of the Artists of France. Discuss his paintings and learn about Impressionism in Art and learn to speak and write English.
* Early works, Sainte-Adresse, near Le Havre 1840-1872
* First Impressionist paintings
* Later Impressionism
* Paris
* Rouen Cathedral
* Poplars on the Epte
* Waterlilies
* Haystacks
* Houses of Parliament, London
* Last years
His youth was spent in Le Havre, where he first excelled as a caricaturist but was then converted to landscape painting by his early mentor Boudin, from whom he derived his firm predilection for painting out of doors. In 1859 he studied in Paris at the Atelier Suisse and formed a friendship with Pissarro. After two years' military service in Algiers, he returned to Le Havre and met Jongkind, to whom he said he owed `the definitive education of my eye'. He then, in 1862, entered the studio of Gleyre in Paris and there met Renoir, Sisley, and Bazille, with whom he was to form the nucleus of the Impressionist group. Monet's devotion to painting out of doors is illustrated by the famous story concerning one of his most ambitious early works, Women in the Garden (Musée d'Orsay, Paris; 1866-67). The picture is about 2.5 meters high and to enable him to paint all of it outside he had a trench dug in the garden so that the canvas could be raised or lowered by pulleys to the height he required. Courbet visited him when he was working on it and said Monet would not paint even the leaves in the background unless the lighting conditions were exactly right.
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/monet/
Monet's persistence in painting in series, beginning with the Gare Saint-Lazare and continuing in the Poplars and Haystacks, attains an impressive climax in the series he devoted to Rouen Cathedral. He began work at Rouen early in 1892, the year after he had finished the Haystacks and the last of the Poplars, and took a room above a shop in the rue Grand-Pont from which to observe the west front of the great church. He broke off to return to Giverny but resumed work at Rouen in the spring of 1893. The rest of that year and most of 1894 was spent in completing the paintings from memory.
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