Claude Monet Impressionist Artist

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  Claude Monet 1840 -1926

Monet was a French Artist born on 14th November 1840 in Paris. His father Claude Adolphe Monet was a grocer and mother Louis Justin Monet was a singer. In May 1842 in a Parish church Claude Monet was baptized, his name changed to Oscar Monet and after few years in 1845 he moved to Le Harve in Normandy with his family. He never wanted to join his family business but always wanted to become an artist against his father’s wishes.

In the year 1851 Claude Oscar Monet joined secondary school of arts in Le Harve. He first made charcoal caricatures and sell them for 10-20 francs, this made him famous in the local market. He also learns drawing under the training of Jacques-Francois Ochard . In 1856 one day when he gone to the beaches of  Normandy he met Eugene Boudin , from him Claude Monet learnt oil painting and outdoor painting . He made Boudin his mentor and learnt almost all the techniques of being a good artist.

Claude Monet was the inventor of French impressionist painting. His painting Impression gives birth to the term impressionism. Monet painted The Women in Green dress in 1866 and gained recognition. His future wife Camille Donceiux was the model of the paintings like Women in the Garden and on the bank of the Siene in 1868. In 1870 while Franco-Prussian war Monet went to England and followed the style paintings of John Constable and William Turner. Both of them were great landscape artists and Claude Monet was highly inspired by them and learned the use of colors. In spite of his good works he was not allowed for authorization of his work by Royal Academy exhibition in 1871. He then left London and went to Netherlands and made some of the best paintings there nearly about 25 paintings. He  made short visit to Amsterdam also. In the same year he returned to France and lived in a village near Paris for about 7 years till 1878. He went to Holland also for a very short period.

One of the most popular painting of Claude Monet is Impression, sunrise in 1872 . He painted the beautiful landscape of Le harve in this painting and it get the chance be hanged in the first exhibition of impressionist in 1874. In 1879 Monet’s wife Camille died due to Tuberculosis, she was only thirty-two years old . Claude painted her on deathbed also. In 1883 Monet rented a new house in Givenry His house was surrounded by beautiful landscapes that provided enough scope for his paintings. He painted many pictures and sold them to make his fortune. Soon his life changed and he transformed his house in a big building with beautiful gardens and landscapes . Monet also painted some series paintings in them he painted the pictures with different lights and weather conditions.

Claude Monet was died in December 1926 due to lung cancer . He was 86 years old at the time of death. After his death his beautiful house was bequeathed to the French academy of fine arts by his only heir , his son Michel. That house is the main attraction for tourists in Givenry. Claude Monet’s house will always cherish his memories in the hearts of his followers.