
法国艺术家、印象派画家的领军人物克劳德·莫奈(Claude Monet)于1840年的今天出生在巴黎。
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Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) 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. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris. Monet's ambition of documenting the French countryside led him to adopt a method of painting the same scene many times in order to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons. From 1883 Monet lived in Giverny, where he purchased a house and property and began a vast landscaping project which included lily ponds that would become the subjects of his best-known works. In 1899 he began painting the water lilies, first in vertical views with a Japanese bridge as a central feature, and later in the series of large-scale paintings that was to occupy him continuously for the next 20 years of his life. Monet died of lung cancer on 5 December 1926 at the age of 86 and is buried in the Giverny church cemetery. He had insisted that the occasion be simple; thus only about fifty people attended the ceremony. His home, garden, and waterlily pond were bequeathed by his son Michel, his only heir, to the French Academy of Fine Arts (part of the Institut de France) in 1966. Through the Fondation Claude Monet, the house and gardens were opened for visits in 1980, following restoration. In addition to souvenirs of Monet and other objects of his life, the house contains his collection of Japanese woodcut prints. The house and garden, along with the Museum of Impressionism, are major attractions in Giverny, which hosts tourists from all over the world.
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奥斯卡-克劳德·莫奈(1840年11月14日–1926年12月5日)是法国印象派绘画的创始人,也是该流派“表现个人对自然感知”这一哲学理念最坚定、最高产的实践者,特别是在户外风景画方面。 “印象派”这一名称源自他的一幅画作标题《印象·日出》(Impression, soleil levant),该画于1874年首次展出。那是莫奈及其同仁为了抗衡巴黎沙龙展而举办的首次独立艺术展。
莫奈致力于记录法国乡村,为了捕捉光影的流转和季节的更迭,他采取了反复描绘同一场景的绘画方式。1883年起,莫奈定居吉维尼,他在那里买下了一栋房子和一片地,开始了一项浩大的景观改造工程,其中就包括后来成为他最出名作品主题的睡莲池。1899年,他开始创作睡莲系列,起初是带有日本桥作为视觉中心的竖构图,后来则发展为一系列大型画作,这项创作持续占据了他余后20年的人生。
莫奈于1926年12月5日因肺癌去世,享年86岁,安葬在吉维尼教堂的墓园里。他生前坚持葬礼要一切从简,因此只有约五十人出席了仪式。
他的故居、花园和睡莲池由其唯一的继承人——儿子米歇尔,于1966年捐赠给了法兰西艺术院(隶属于法兰西学会)。经克劳德·莫奈基金会修缮后,故居和花园于1980年向公众开放参观。除了莫奈的纪念品及其生前的物件外,故居内还藏有他收藏的日本浮世绘木刻版画。这些故居和花园,连同印象派博物馆,成了吉维尼的主要旅游景点,吸引着来自世界各地的游客。
), (which was taken by post-impressionists like Van Gogh in retaliation against naturalistic lighting and color and "set free," so to speak).* *As it reach the United States, American impressionists were motivated by the idealistic, romantic attitudes of the era in tandem with the American garden movement. This resulted in most American impressionism featuring [scenes of tranquility](
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)(后来后印象派画家如梵高为了反抗那种自然光影和色彩,把这些技法“解放”出来,可以这么说)。*
*当印象派传到美国时,美式印象派受到当时那种理想主义、浪漫主义思潮,以及美国本土园艺运动的推动。这使得大多数美式印象派作品呈现出[宁静的景象](
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)的写照。*