Take Home Your Synthetic Monet Creations Straight From the Museums

A significant turning point in Monet's artistic career came in 1869, when he and Renoir painted La Grenouillere, a floating restaurant at Bougival. The canvases they produced marked the emergence of a new artistic movement, Impressionism, called so later.

He got married to his model Camille Doincieux 1870, who bore him his sons Jean and Machael.

The following years saw a flourishing of Impressionism. Monet took part in the group's exhibitions of 1874, 1876, 1877, 1879 and 1882. He created such masterpieces as La Gare Saint-Lazare and Rue Saint-Denis, Festivities of 30 June, 1878. However, like most impressionist painters, his canvases found few buyers. Desperately poor, he constantly looked for places where life was cheaper, and lived at Argenteuil from 1873 to 1878, at Vétheuil from 1879 to 1881, at Poissy in 1882, and at Giverny from 1883 until his death.

In the late 1880s, his painting began to attract the attention of both the public and critics. Fame brought comfort and even wealth. During that period the artist was absorbed in painting landscapes in series: The Rocks of Belle-Ile (1886), Cliffs at Belle-Ile (1886), Poplars on the Bank of the River Epte (1890), Poplars on the Banks of the Epte (1891), Poplars on the Bank of the River Epte (1891).

In 1890, Monet bought the property at Giverny and began work on the series of haystacks, which he pursued for two years. Monet painted the stacks in sunny and gray weather, in fog and covered with snow: Haystack, Snow Effects, Morning (1890), Haystack. End of the Summer. Morning. (1891), Haystack at the Sunset near Giverny (1891). In 1892, three years after the death of his wife, he married Alice Hoschedé his old friend.

Monet's renowned series of the cathedral at Rouen seen under different light effects was painted from a second-floor window above a shop opposite the façade. He made eighteen frontal views. Monet had followed the hours of the day from early morning with the façade in misty blue shadow, to the afternoon, when the sunset, disappearing behind the buildings of the city, weaves the weathered stone work into a strange fabric of burnt orange and blue: The Rouen Cathedral. Portail. The Albaine Tower. 1893-1894, The Rouen Cathedral at Noon (1894), The Rouen Cathedral (1893-1894), The Rouen Cathedral at Twilight (1894), The Rouen Cathedral in the Evening (1894).

In 1899, Monet first turned to the subject of water lilies: The White Water Lilies (1899), The Japanese Bridge (1899), Water-Lilies (1914), Water-Lilies (c.1917), Water-Lilies (1917), the main theme of his later work. Fourteen large canvases of his Water lilies series, started in 1916, were bequeathed by him to the State. In 1927, shortly after the artist's death, these canvases were placed in two oval rooms of the Musée de l'Orangerie in the Tuileries Gardens.

In His entire life he made about five hundred paintings. He is recognized as one of the creators of Impressionism, and he was the most convinced and consistent Impressionist of them all.

Synthetic Monet Creations in Printing on Demand

But with the advent of printing technology, these paintings can now be owned by ordinary individuals who want a piece of Monet's painting without spending fortunes. On-demand printing offers you an alternative. While the real painting is relatively way too expensive, it allows you to own "cloned" painting that will surely attract attention. This option might not be authentic but it promises quality and beauty close to the original painting.

Read on about how print on demand puts a masterpiece in your hands.

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