White Water lilies - Claude Monet

• Impressionism


  A style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s, characterized by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment, especially in terms of the shifting effect of light and colour.
• Plein-air


  Denoting or in the manner of a 19th-century style of painting outdoors, which became a central feature of French impressionism.
• Title of the artwork
• 1899


  Year of artwork
• Claude Monet was a French impressionist painter
• Claude Monet passed away due to lung cancer
• Monet would paint the same scene at different times of day and weather conditions
• Brilliant, sparkling colour effect

  Achieved by thickly applying fresh, pure colour using obvious brushstrokes.
• The invention of the camera led to realism becoming popular
• Monet's subject deviated from traditional portrait styles to landscape and more natural themes
• Monet's techniques transformed as he focused on subtle effects of light, tone and colour
• Plein air technique

  Refers to the act of painting outdoors with the artist's subject in full view.
• Plein air artists capture the spirit and essence of a landscape or subject
• Plein air technique allows artists to capture fleeting effects of light and subtle changes in the landscape
• It took until the late 19th century during the Heidelberg art movement for impressionism to influence Australian artists
• Arthur Streeton and Jane Sutherland utilized similar techniques to Claude Monet's style of art
• Similar techniques to Claude Monet's style

  • Using en plein air
  • Focusing on fleeting effects of light
  • Capturing landscape-style painting
  • Capturing the essence of everyday life