my favourite artist
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My Favourite Artist – Claude Monet
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• Birth Date: November 14,1840
• Death Date: December 5, 1926
• National Origin: French
• The leader of the Impressionist movement
Created and sold caricatures when a youngster
• Trained by Eugene Boudin
• Studied at the Suisse academy in Paris
• Was close with Pierre – Auguste Renoir,
Frederic Bazille, Alfred Sisley, Eduard Manet
Women in the Garden
• Wasn’t acclaimed• Conveyed the
effects and behaviour of natural light
• Studied Constable’s and Turner’s works in London; was influenced by their painting
• 1873 – the first Impressionist exhibition
Impression, Sunrise
Gave the name to the Impressionist movement
“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."
Colour palette – cool + warm( the sun)brushwork - short, thick strokes
natural light
Series of Haystacks
Claude Monet - Wheatstacks (End of Summer)Claude Monet - Haystacks at Chailly at Sunrise
Claude Monet - Meule, Degel, Soleil CouchantClaude Monet - Meule, Effet de Neige, le Matin
(Morning Snow Effect)
The perfect study of colour and light relationships
Series of Water Lilies• Place : Giverny• Many of them are
made at the time of Monet’ s failing eyesight
• No delineating• Investigation of
colour and light • Cheerful colours
Monet is an important influence on the development of art
How I Can Employ ItPossible tasks:• To write a cinquain on the basis of one of
Monet’s pictures, using the new vocabulary• To make a project – comparison of a
Monet’s work and one of some Russian impressionist
• To create their own impressionist-like drawing and comment on it
• To reflect on the knowledge acquired during the lesson in the form of a reflective table( what I knew/What I’ve learnt)
How I Can Employ It• Teach new vocabulary related to the topic
“Art” and develop speaking and writing skills (describing students own art works, impressionist works, writing a cinquain)
• Develop the students in aesthetic way • Develop critical thinking and project work
skills ( comparison of Monet’s pictures with some other Russian Impressionist)
• Develop students’ creative skills (writing cinquains, creating their own impressionist – like work)
• To raise the students’ interest in learning ( on the basis of personally-oriented tasks)
• To give the opportunity to express their own opinion (project-work, writing a cinquain)
• To teach self-reflection
THANK YOU FOR ATTENTION