On this day, 185 years ago, on November 14, 1840 (October 21, 1840 in the lunar calendar), Monet, one of the founders of Impressionism, was born. Claude Monet (1840-1926), the French Impressionist painter Monet (1840-1926), was the initiator, leader and unwavering advocate of the Impressionist painting movement. After Monet exhibited "Impression: sunrise" in 1874, critics commented on the movement in newspapers under the title "Exhibition of Impressionists," hence the name. In 1888, the critic Fai-Fineon wrote: "The word impressionism was coined for him, and the term was more appropriate to him than to anyone else." "Impression: sunrise" Claude Monet was born in Paris and moved with his family to the port city of Le Havre in northwest France at the age of 5. Since he was a child, Monet has shown extraordinary talent in painting, learning painting from a local artist at the age of 15. His artistic career began with his acquaintance with E-Budan and has since begun painting outdoors. At the age of 16, he was already able to make money selling paintings. At that time, his paintings were posted at the door of the Port Art Shop and sold for 20 francs each. Monet's self-portrait In 1859, Monet came to Paris and met three like-minded good friends-Renoir, Sisley and Bazir. Led by Monet, they often went together to the forest of Fontainebleau to paint sketches. Later, the emergence of the Waiguang School, or Impressionism, was the result of their joint efforts. Barbizon painters Dubini and Twarong had a deep influence on him. Monet's works are mainly scenery, but his two distinctive huge portraits,"Woman in Green" and "Woman in Kimono", are modeled on a woman named Camus. Camus was Monet's beloved wife and his most affectionate model. In 1866, Monet fell in love with 19-year-old Camus and lived together, but his father opposed their union and cut off financial support for him, causing Monet's life to fall into a desperate situation. The embarrassment of life did not separate the lovers, but stimulated the artist's passion. In the same year, Monet completed "Woman in Green" with Camus as the main character. This work, which took just four days to complete, made Monet selected for the 1866 Salon Exhibition and was well received. It was not until 1870, when Monet was 30 years old, that he obtained his father's consent to formally marry Camus, when their eldest son John was born. 1865-1870 1989 was the early days of Monet's creation. Before this, he had begun to paint with the fragmented brushstrokes characteristic of Impressionism, such as "Picnic"(1865-1866) and "The Balcony of Saint Adrias". Monet's creative purpose is mainly to explore ways to express nature, recording the instant sensation and impressions and what he saw that was full of vitality and movement. He paints objects as flat color patterns without paying attention to their weight and volume. In 1868, he created the first Impressionist works with Renoir and Brival, which depict outdoor light, movement and moments with strong broken brushstrokes. Around 1872, he became interested in Japanese printmaking, and its decorative and planarity had a great influence on modern French painting. In the 1875 painting "The Woman Holding the Parasol", Camus appeared with his son John. From the perspective of looking up, her posture of leaning half-on-side is particularly vivid and touching. The sun shone on her white dress and the grass under her feet, while the white gauze floating gently around her face and the rotating skirt showed the caressing of the wind. 1878 was an especially dark and gray year in Monet's life. His sponsor Audsey went bankrupt and the family left Paris due to difficult life. In 1879, Monet became even more embarrassed and depressed, so that he was unable to attend the Fourth Impressionist Exhibition. In September of that year, Camus passed away prematurely due to cancer. After Camus's death, Monet officially married Alice, the sponsor's ex-wife, in 1892. In Monet's later works, Alice and her daughters appear. In these works, the characters 'faces are very blurred, and it seems that they are still Camus's figure, expressing the painter's grief. In the years after 1880, Monet gave the final interpretation and confirmation of impressionism, insisting on pursuing the integrity of the harmony between light and air. One of the series of paintings "Poplar Tree" went to London in the early 1870s and painted canals, ships, and windmills in the Netherlands. He also painted "Impression: sunrise" in Le Havre. After returning to China, he lived in Argenteuil, which was also the peak period of the Impressionism movement. 1872-1875 The works created by Monet, Renoir, Sisley and Pissarro during the years are the most attractive works of Impressionism. Monet settled in Giverny in 1883 until his death. After the 1990s, he concentrated on completing a series of continuous cropping paintings, such as: "Poplar"(1890-1891),"Haystack"(1889-1893),"Rouen Cathedral, Sunset"(1894),"Morning on the Seine"(1896-1897), etc. One of the series of "Morning on the Seine" In 1890, Monet transformed Giverny into a water lily garden. He painted "water lily" here for 20 years, and later developed into a large circular mural in 1925, which was placed in Two 80-foot-long oval halls at the Palais de Oranges in Sillery, Paris, were exhibited to the public in 1971. In his later years, he continued to explore nature despite eye diseases until his death in 1926. On December 5, 1926, Monet passed away at his home in Giverny at the age of 86. In his life, Monet painted the ultimate description of the beauty of light. It was the light of life that transcended the worldly levels of light and color and sublimated to the realm of ethereal spirit. It was separated from the barriers of the body and spirit and was eternal and freely flowing. The main works include: "The Balcony of San Adrias"(1866, Collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York), Women in the Garden (1866-1867, collected by the Louvre Museum),"The River"(1868, collected by the Art Institute of Chicago),"Impression: sunrise"(1872, collected by the Marmotan Museum in Paris),"Paris Saint-Lachar Railway Station"(1877, collected by the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University),"Haystack"(1891, collected by the College of the Arts University of Chicago) and "Water Lilies"(1906-1926, Paris tennis courts), etc.