Artistic friends

Hello dear readers,

One day I was looking for a video with the title impressionism and I stumble upon a documentary about the life of the most renowned impressionist: Monet, Degas, Manet, Renoir and Cezanne.

Made me dream about finding good friends; that we would share this passion for oil painting and; like in the documentary; go out and paint the forest,  the park and of course the landscape with a lake in it.

A Studio in the Batignolles (1870), by Henri Fantin-Latour, 

I like very much this painting with Manet seated in his studio at his easel surrounded by younger artists Monet, Renoir, and Degas, and others; because shows that the only way to get better is to practice your art; also because we can appreciate the amazing era that this gentlemen where portraying.

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Impressive coincidence.

Hello dear readers,

I decided to use the application Umano to listen the news and in one of the podcast they started talking about Monet; the shapes the colors, the impressionism. I was hooked so the decision to study more about this great artist came up easy.

Later on after work;  when I sit down to watch television a surprise! right there and then a documentary about impressionism, Monet and Degas. I took it as a sign to continue studying this style of painting.

According to what I've been studying about Monet, he desired to be an exhibition artist for a great gallery in Paris, but this gallery was under the control of a few critics and they were always looking for a certain still of painting; clean, classic. 

Monet wanted to paint what he saw and to accomplish that he needed to paint fast to capture the colors the shines and shadows. Him and other artists started painting out doors using this new style of painting; they also decided to create their own exhibition.

I believe this is the best example of never giving up, they suffered in many ways but they enjoyed their life.

Personally I love this painting, according to the documentary, Monet woke up to an unusual sunrise and the painted what he saw, the colors seem easy but I still cannot decide to do a replica. I need some classes.

Sunrise, 1872, Claude Monet

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