Transcript Third Thursdays for Teachers Claude Monet’s The Meadow Impressionist Art Claude Monet • • • • Claude-Oscar Monet, born November 14 in Paris Sells caricatures & meets Eugène Boudin Moves.

Third Thursdays for
Teachers
Claude Monet’s The Meadow
Impressionist Art
Claude Monet
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Claude-Oscar Monet, born November 14 in Paris
Sells caricatures & meets Eugène Boudin
Moves to Paris and enrolls in the Swiss Academy
Paints with Boudin and Johan Jongkind
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1856-59
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1862
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Boudin, On the Beach of Deauville, 1869.
Louvre, Paris.
Source: Harrison, Peter. Claude
Monet (Art for Young People). 1995.
Claude Monet
• Paints with Boudin and Johan Jongkind
Jongkind, The Seine and Notre-Dame, 1864. Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
1862
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Claude Monet
• Returns to Paris and enrolls in Gleyre’s studio
1862-64
• Paintings accepted in the Salon
1865-66,1868
• Paints with Renoir – La Grenouillè (near Paris)
1869
Monet, Camille, 1866.
Kunsthalle Bremen.
Renoir, Portrait of Sisley,
1868. E.G. Buhrie Collection,
Zurich, Switzerland.
Bazille, Self-Portrait,
1865-6. Art Institute
of Chicago.
Bazille, Portrait of Renoir, 1867.
Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
Claude Monet
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Monets go to London
Moves to Argenteuil
First Impressionist Show
Moves to Giverny
Monet, Houses of Parliament, 1905. Musée
Marmottan, Paris
Monet, The Studio Boat, 1876. The
Barnes Foundation, Merion.
1870
1871
1874
1883
Monet, The Water Lily Pond [Japanese Bridge], 1899
Private Collection.
Claude Monet
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Eyesight starts to fail
Starts water-lily project
Undergoes two surgeries for cataracts
Dies December 5 at Giverny
Louis Bonnier, Plan water-lily project
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1914
1923
1926
Henri Manuel, photograph of Monet in his third studio in front
of Morning, ca. 1924-25, Archives Durand-Ruel, Paris.
Impressionism
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Birthplace – Batignolles district of Paris
Color and light
Finished painting or not?
En plein air
Subjects – slice of life
Manet, The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil, 1874.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Monet, Duck Pond, Argenteuil, 1873.
Archives Wildenstein
The Impressionist Exhibition
• First Société Anonyme des Artists – April 15, 1874
• Art critic – Louis Leroy
• Eight exhibitions held between 1874-1886
Degas, At the Races in the Country, 1869.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Claude Monet, Impression: Sunrise, 1872-3. Musée Marmottan, Paris
Morisot, The Cradle 1872. Musée
d’Orsay, Paris.
Monet’s Subject & Styles
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Liberal free spirit
Landscapes rather than portraits
Monet’s palette
Impressionist style
Painting outdoors
Monet, Poplars 1891. The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York.
Monet, Wheatstacks. (Full Sunlight), 1890.
Hillstead, Museum, Farmington.
Monet, Wheatstacks. (Effects of Snow,
Morning) 1890-91. Private Collection.
Monet, Wheatstack. (Sunset), 189091. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
Juliana Cheney Edwards Collection.
New Innovations
• Metal paint tubes
• Cameras
• Trains
Monet, La Gare Saint-Lazare, 1877.
Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
Renoir, Le Pont Neuf, d. 1872.
National Gallery of Art, Washington;
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection.
Photograph of Le Pont Neuf, c. 1860.
Bibliothèque National, Paris.
Side by Side
Monet and Renoir
Monet, Still Life with Flowers and Fruit, 1869.
J. Paul Gety Museum, Malibu.
Renoir, Mixed Flowers in an Earthenware Pot, 1869.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Side by Side
Monet & Renoir
Renoir, Bathing at la Grenouillère, 1869.
Oscar Reinhart Collection, Winterthur,
Switzerland.
Monet, Bathing at La Grenouillère (or The Frog Pond), 1869.
Trustees of the National Gallery, London.
Side by Side
Monet & Renoir
Monet, Camille at Work, d. 1875.
The Barnes Foundation, Merion
Station, Pa.
Renoir, Young Girls at the Piano (La Leçon de piano) ca. 1889.
Joslyn Art Museum.
Side by Side
Monet & Hassam
Monet, Le Pont Neuf, d. 1872. Dallas Museum of Art;
The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection.
Hassam, April Showers, Champs Elysées, Paris, 1888.
Joslyn Art Museum
Side by Side
Monet & Cassatt
Monet, Repose (Madame Monet on an Sofa), c. 1871.
Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
Cassatt, Woman Reading (Portrait of Lydia
Cassatt, the Artist’s Sister), 1878 – 79.
Joslyn Art Museum
The Meadow
Monet, The Meadow, 1879. Joslyn Art Museum.
The Meadow
Monet, Small Country Farm at Brdighera (Un coin de ferme à Bordighera),1884. Joslyn Art Museum.
From the Museum to the Classroom
• Fine Arts
– Seasons Change. Study The Meadow and discuss what
season Monet is capturing. Discuss how the colors would
change for a different season.
– Students create a series of paintings representing different
seasons.
Monet, Path through the
Garden at Givery, 1902.
Private Collection.
Monet, The Magpie, 1868-69. Musée
d’Orsay, Paris.
Monet, The Meadow, 1879.
Joslyn Art Museum.
From the Museum to the Classroom
• Language Arts
– Capturing a Moment. Discuss the Impressionistic style.
Focus on Impressionist Artists desire to capture a moment in
time.
• Do not show them The Meadow, yet. Have the students gather
with a journal and a pencil.
• Tell them once you reveal the painting they will have 45
seconds to study it.
• Next, have them write for 5-10 minutes describing their first
impression of the art work.
• Then, reveal the painting have them study it.
• Then have them write for 20-30 minutes.
From the Museum to the Classroom
• Math
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Bridge Building. Study Monet’s images of his bridge at
Giverny.
• Have students study the bridge’s design. Using wood (i.e.
toothpicks) have students recreate the bridge.
• Then have students design their own bridge.
• Test to see which type of bridge holds the most weight.
– Percentages. Study an image The Meadow.
• Determine what percentage of the painting is foreground, trees
and sky.
• Grid the painting to get a more accurate result.
From the Museum to the Classroom
• Science
– Mix it UP. Study how oil paints are created.
• Collaborate with an art class. Science class mix up the paints
for an art class to use.
• In turn, the art class will create portraits of the “scientists” who
created their paints.
– Garden Party. Look at some of Monet’s images he created
while in a garden.
• Take a field trip to a garden and try to identify some of the
same plants/flowers if possible.
• Or create a class garden for the entire school to enjoy. Part of
the tour of the garden could be a flower scavenger hunt.
From the Museum to the Classroom
• Social Studies
– Slice of Life. Discuss what types of subjects the
Impressionist artists would depict in their paintings.
• Talk about what is happening in The Meadow.
• Have students talk about what types of activities their families
do on weekends. Create a list.
• Next discuss what types of activities families would do on the
weekends in the 19th century.
• Talk about how the 19th century compares with the 21st
century.
The Meadow