On this day, one of the most important artists of Paris, Claude Monet, was born in 1840, and he is the pioneer of the Impressionist School in drawing, and he accomplished a new painting in 1872 AD, and called it “impression, a bright sun”, and when the first was to use this new method of photography, The name of the new school was derived from the name of his “Impressionist” painting.
During the last part of the year 1873, Monet, Ouchist Renoir, Camy Pisarro and Al -Furdd, the unknown group of painters, sculptors and discussions were organized to display their artwork independently.
In their first exhibition, which was held in April 1874, the Monet presented the work that gave the group its name and the painting representing the scene of the port of Le Hafer, and from the title of the painting, literary critic Luis Lauroa used the term “impressionist” in his article the impressionist exhibition that appeared in the most famous newspaper in Paris in that The time, and it was intended to diminish, but the impressionists took it as a name for them.
In 1860, Monet joined the army and sent to Algeria, and from there he wrote that describes the impact of intense colors and the incandescent colors in these eastern countries on himself, but his injury to the flesh of Tifood precipitated his demobilization from the army, so he left Algeria to return to Paris to continue his learning to art, and he was able to provide us with many Important artwork.
Among the most prominent paintings presented by Monet are women in the park 1867 AD, breakfast 1873, the swip of the frogs 1869, a group of pictures on San Lazar station, and the landscapes from Arjonteto and Vitto the impression of sunrise.
During the First World War in which his son Michel and his friend Clemenceau participated, Monet drew a series of sad, shattered trees, which represented the French soldiers.
The year 1923 underwent two operations to remove the cataracts, and the drawings that he drew during that period have a red character as a result of his illness. The reason may also be due to the fact that after performing the operation, he sees ultraviolet colors, which do not usually see, and this affected the colors he chose in his paintings.
Monet died on December 5, 1926, after he suffered lung cancer 86, and was buried in the cemetery of the Jeffern Church..
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