莫内(1840～1926年)

Monet, Claude

法国印象派风景画家。早年在勒哈佛尔度过，在那里，他的老师布丹教他如何在开阔的环境下作画。迁往巴黎後，他同别的一些年轻画家建立起了终生的友谊，包括雷诺瓦、西斯莱和塞尚，他们都成为主要的印象派画家。1874年首次印象派画展中，展出莫内早期的油画作品《印象：日出》，他领导的印象派因此得名。他天生不安定，曾在法国（主要在阿让特伊）、英国、威尼斯、荷兰和别的一些地方作画。在他成熟期的画作中，莫内展现了他从不同的侧面观察同一个事物得到的不同效果，并通过画布的色彩明暗和他的兴趣变化来表现事物。这些系列作品包括《乾草堆》（1891）和《卢昂大教堂》（1894），两者都是标明日期的画作，通常被放在一起展出。他在他吉维尼的家中修建了睡莲池，并因此激发了他的创作灵感，画出了《睡莲》系列。他的作品具有国际影响，而他也被认为是印象主义的代表人物。

English version：

1840～1926年

Monet, Claude

French Impressionist landscape painter. Monet spent his early years in Le Havre, where his first teacher, Eugene Boudin, taught him to paint in the open air. Moving to Paris, he formed lifelong friendships with other young painters, including Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Paul Cezanne, who were also to become leading Impressionists. An early Monet canvas, Impression: soleil levant, shown at the first Impressionist Exhibition in 1874, gave its name to the movement of which he was the leader. Restless by nature, he painted outdoors around France (often at Argenteuil) and also in England, Venice, Holland, and elsewhere. In his mature works Monet developed his method of producing several studies of the same motif in series, changing canvases with the light or as his interest shifted. These series, including Haystacks (1891) and Rouen Cathedral (1894), were generally dated and were often exhibited together. In the garden at his home in Giverny, Monet created the water-lily pond that inspired his most famous works, the lyrical Nymphéas (water lilies) paintings. His work exerted huge influence internationally, and he is regarded as the emblematic representative of Impressionism.