Monet, Manet, Renoir and their friends then decided to join forces. aeroport plus proche : Aéroport de Paris-Charles de Gaulle.However, skittish about anything new, the institution rejected all these works, which it deemed not to comply with its canons. For several years, the artist had been part of a group of painters looking to break away from the codes of the all-powerful Academy of Fine Arts they wanted to explore new topics, try different techniques, shape reality in their own fashion. This is an allusive and subjective painting of which Monet was nonetheless proud. The Academy and the Impressionists: the battle between old and new His subject choices were considered superficial, his strokes unfinished and not technical enough. In reality, Monet’s work was not rated highly by his peers.
He enjoyed painting from nature in the open air facing the subject and had had a few successes ( Woman in the Green Dress in 1866, Bathers at La Grenouillère in 1869), but he was not yet able to live off his painting. The father of Water Lilies was little known at the time. The 31-year-old painter could not have imagined that this canvas would mark a turning point in his life… and the history of art. On a visit to Le Havre, Claude Monet decided to take his oils, a few brushes and a blank canvas to sketch, from his hotel window, a view of the Normandy port bathed in sunlight and shrouded in mist. It all started in the early morning of 13 November 1872.