THE UNIVERSITY OF DODOMA

COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND MEDIA STUDIES

COURSE NAME: SPECIAL STUDIES IN PAINTING

COURSE CODE: AD 211

COURSE INSTRUCTOR: MR.RUGUMAMU

NATURE OF WORK: GROUP ASSIGNEMENT

DATE OF SUBMISSION: 15 DECEMBER 2022

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1 FARIDI ALLY KHATIBU T21-03-11440 BAFAD M

2 TUMAINI A NIHULE T21-03-09419 BAFAD F

3 AHMED J AHMED T21-03-04532 BAFAD M

4 EMMANUEL E MBWAMBO T21-03-10607 BAFAD M

5 EVASTHA E MBILIGI T21-03-02980 BAFAD F

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9 NELLY STEVEN T21-03-08186 BAFAD F

QUESTION: Who are the painting masters (Ancient Painter?)

What makes them to be famous?
What is so unique about their paints?
What kind of paintings have they done?

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 The term "Old Masters" generally refers to the most recognized European artists—mostly
painters working between the Renaissance and 1800. An informal designation (and not a specific
art historical style or movement), this category includes artists who fall within Gothic Art, the
Early, High, and Northern Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque, the Dutch "Golden Age," Rococo,
Neoclassicism, and Romanticism. Accordingly, Old Masters refers to a range of the most seminal
figures in Western art history, from Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Albrecht Dürer to
Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and Jacques-Louis David.

In our group we discuss one paint master who is Oscar Claude Monet.

OSCAR CLAUDE MONET

Was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor
to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. Oscar Claude Monet
was born in 16 Nov 1840 and died in 5 December 1926. He was the second son of Claude-Adolphe
and Louise-Justine Aubrée Monet,

He married Camille on 28 June 1870, just before the outbreak of Franco Prussian war. They
had two children, Jean and Michel. Camille Leonie died at 1879 with 32 years of age after an
illness, cervical cancer. He married a second wife, Alice Hoschede.

After the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War (July 19, 1870), Monet took refuge in
England in September 1870. While there, he studied the works of John Constable and Joseph
Mallord, William Turner, both of whose landscapes would serve to inspire Monet's innovations in
the study of color. In the spring of 1871, Monet's works were refused authorization to be included
in the Royal Academy exhibition.

Oscar Claude Monet became interest in outdoor drawing but his father who was a merchant
wants his son to be a business man but his mother who was a singer gives him a support on his
drawings.

After sixteen years old his mother died and he moved to Paris to his widowed and childless
aunt who called Marie.

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 Oscar Claude Monet. (1899) Nadar studio. Portrait,

He went on the study at the Académie Suisse, and under the academic history painter Charles
Gleyre where he was a classmate of Camille Pissarro and Auguste Renoir who introduced him to
the concept of plein Air painting. He was called for military service and served under the African
hunters in Algeria from 1861 to 1862 where his time had powerful effect on him, as said later “The
light and vivid colors of North Africa contained the gem of my future research”, Illness brought
him back to Paris where he met Auguste Renoir and his closest friend Bazile. In search of motifs
they travelled to Honfleur where Monet often painted alongside Renoir and Alfredo Sisley. Monet
lived in Giverny, also in northern France where he purchased a house and property and began a
vast landscaping project, including a water lily pond.

OSCAR CLAUDE MONET WAS INSPIRED AND INFLUENCED

By Ukiyo-e Japanese Art, Gustave, William Turner, John Constable and Eugene Boudin

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 STYLE AND TECHNIQUES USED BY OSCAR CLAUDE MONET

He use thin and small yet visible brush strokes to create color harmony in his paintings.

He done his paints on location and if he didn’t finished his paint he came again in another
day with the same time in order to complete his paints because he has no habits of finishing his
paints on studio.

He was painting the same paints in different times in order to capture variations of lights
and seasonal changes on his paints.

WHAT MAKES HIM FAMOUS

Impressionism was named after one of the Monet’s paintings. Claude Monet was a key
figure in the Impressionist movement that transformed French painting in the second half of the
nineteenth, the man Is said to be the founder of impressionism Art movement, The name
impressionism originated from Claude Monet’s painting (Impression, Sunrise) at the first
impressionist exhibition in 1874 Paris France.

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 WHAT KIND OF PAINTINGS OSCAR CLAUDE MONET DID

He was controlled by nature because he used to paint landscapes which based on water lilies
and if someone started talking about Oscar Claude Monet he/she will not wonder about water lilies
and he was approximate to make 250 paints of water lilies in thirty years.

He depends more on landscapes and seascapes and many of his paints was bases and show
the French countryside which capture the moment.

UNIQUENESS OF OSCAR CLAUDE MONET

Oscar Claude Monet mostly liked to paint people and places he liked the most.

He was painting the same paints in different times in order to capture variations of lights
and seasonal changes on his paints.

He has the habits of destroying his own paints when he was depressed or angry and it was
approximated to 500 paints destroyed by himself when he faces difficult times like the time he was
done eye surgery and loose his clear vision of things. And this habits led the exhibition to be
postponed due to the destroyed of his paints.

He was the habits of creating the series of paintings which capture the moments for example
Oscar Claude Monet create the series of haystack which differ in lights and color.

TOOLS USED BY OSCAR CLAUDE MONET

Thin and small yet visible brush strokes

Oil color painter

A light color user, such as white, very pale gray or very light yellow, and used opaque colors.

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 FAMOUS PAINTING BY OSCAR CLAUDE MONET

La Grenouillère, 1869

Impression, Sunrise 1872

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 Woman with a Parasol, 1875

Haystack at the End of Summer1890−1891

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The parliament House, 1900-1901.

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 REFERENCE

Monet Claude, et al. Monet & Japan. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2001.

Monet Claude, the Impressionist’s Eye. Paris: Musée Marmottan , 2008