Claude Monet. Early works

The book is dedicated to the early work of the French painter, the founder of impressionism, the Clal Monet. He receives his first fame as a caricaturist. Later, Basil, Pissarro, Degas, Cezann, Renoir, Sislem and others, who, like him, are looking for new ways in art. The essence of their reform is that they wrote the floor with an open sky - on the open air - and not only sketches (the artists did this before), but the whole picture. Working in kind, they were convinced that the coloring of objects is constantly changing depending on changes in the lighting, the state of the atmosphere, the neighborhood of other objects that cast color reflexes, and sought to capture these instant changes on canvas. Trying to catch forever
Changing the appearance of nature, convey freshness and immediacy of the impression, Monet refuses the usual techniques of the classic landscape - curtains, dividing space into plans, and so on. In 1874, in the atelier of the photographer Nadar, the picture of Claude Monet impression. The sunrise with a light hand Critic Leroy gave the name to the whole direction of impressionism (from the French L"Mpression - impression)