Poppy Field, Monet
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| Author: | Claude Monet |
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| Original Title: | Coquelicots |
| Type: | Painting |
| Style: | Impressionism |
| Medium | Oil |
| Support: | Canvas |
| Year: | 1873 |
| Genre: | Landscape |
| Located: | Orsay Museum, París. |
The impressionist-style composition depicts a landscape in which the figures of Camille and Jean (the painter’s wife and son, respectively) are sketched in the foreground with brushstrokes of violet, black, and yellow. Similar silhouettes reappear in the distance on the hilltops, more as a suggestion of color than as well-defined figures.
Title in English: "Poppy Field near Argenteuil".
Claude Monet painted Poppy Field in 1873.
He created the painting while observing the wildflower fields on the outskirts of the city that gives the work its name. This painting reveals Monet’s passion for color, with red accents scattered across the flowers in a natural profusion over the lush green fields.
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Why is this painting famous?
Poppy Field, painted by Claude Monet, is one of the key works that marked the birth of Impressionism. It was exhibited at the group’s first show in 1874, organized in the studio of the photographer Nadar in Paris, and provoked both admiration and rejection for its break with academic painting.
The quick brushstroke, the capture of changing light, and the depiction of an everyday outdoor scene embodied the new way of understanding painting. Over time, it became one of the most emblematic images of Impressionism and a symbol of 19th-century artistic modernity.
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Claude Monet
| Full Name: | Oscar-Claude Monet. |
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| Birth: | 1840, Paris, France. |
| Death: | 1926, Giverny, France. |
| Style: | Impressionism. |
A leader of the Impressionist art movement, Monet’s paintings are recognized as the purest examples of this style. His importance is reflected in the price achieved by his oil painting "Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas," sold in London in 2008 for 40.9 million pounds sterling.
Monet laid the foundations of modern painting. His brush did not aim to tell a story or provide a moral lesson to the viewer, but rather placed impressions on the canvas based on sensations experienced by the eye. The pointillist brushstrokes, which he painted with the mastery of a true artist, are the origin of modern pictorial art.
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