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An abstract artist, I cannot help but be influenced by the great artist Oscar-Claude Monet.

Oscar-Claude Monet was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement’s philosophy of expressing one’s perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.

“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life – the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.” – Claude Monet

Claude Monet – French Painter, Movement: Impressionism

Born: November 14, 1840 – Paris, France

Died: December 5, 1926 – Giverny, France

I share the following interesting facts about the great artist from “Claude Monet Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works | The Art Story”.

Claude Monet was the leader of the French Impressionist movement, literally giving the movement its name. As an inspirational talent and personality, he was crucial in bringing its adherents together. Interested in painting in the open air and capturing natural light, Monet would later bring the technique to one of its most famous pinnacles with his series paintings, in which his observations of the same subject, viewed at various times of the day, were captured in numerous sequences of paintings. Masterful as a colorist and as a painter of light and atmosphere, his later work often achieved a remarkable degree of abstraction, and this has recommended him to subsequent generations of abstract painters.

Monet’s extraordinarily long life and large artistic output befit the enormity of his contemporary popularity. Impressionism, for which he is a pillar, continues to be one of the most popular artistic movement as evidenced by its massive popular consumption in the form of calendars, postcards, and posters. Of course, Monet’s paintings command top prices at auctions and some are considered priceless, in fact, Monet’s work is in every major museum worldwide.

Even though his works are now canonized, for a number of years after Monet’s death, he was only known in select circles of art lovers. The major renaissance of his work occurred in New York by the Abstract Expressionists. Artists like Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, and critics such as Clement Greenberg learned much from Monet’s large canvases, and semi-abstract, all-over compositions. Pop artists also referred to Monet’s haystacks in pieces like Andy Warhol repeating portraits. Similarly, many Minimalists used the same technique in their serial display of objects. In fact, Impressionism and Monet are now considered the basis for all of modern and contemporary art, and are thus quintessential to almost any historical survey.

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I don’t begin to compare myself or consider my work in the same realm or worthiness of the extraordinary Monet. I only appreciate and admire his talent, contribution and influence to the world of art and particularly to abstract art that I dearly love. So I named this small painting “Monet’s Influence” as a tribute to his greatness, memory and excellence.

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