Analysis of Selected Works by Claude Monet Claude Oscar Monet‚ the famous impressionist painter was born on November 14‚ 1840. Even though his birthplace was Paris‚ he grew up in Le Havre‚ a port town located in North Western France. In his childhood phase‚ he didn’t have any contact with anyone who would play a significant role as an artistic influence in Monet’s life. Monet’s parents were completely against the arts‚ and because of that‚ he had to deal with a lot of sacrifices in life‚ from earning
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Brushwork and Use of Color in Claude Monet’s Bathing at La Grenouillere Born in Paris‚ France‚ Claude Monet began to develop as a young and inspiring artist in the town of Le Havre. After briefly serving in the military‚ Monet returned to Paris and continued to explore different forms of art‚ as well as‚ developing friendships with painters including Édouard Manet‚ Frédéric Bazille‚ and Auguste Renoir. After marrying his wife‚ Camille in 1870‚ the two were constantly traveling until they settled
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"Is that a Monet?" As a nine-year-old boy with minimal knowledge of the arts‚ I wasn’t exactly sure what I was being asked. I turned around to look at the painting on my grandparents’ wall and saw the writing "Claude Monet 1903" in the bottom right-hand corner. I politely answered my aunt’s question‚ "Yes‚ I believe so." After we both looked at the painting for a few moments‚ she commented on its beauty and praised Claude Monet as a "great artist." I liked the painting myself. The different shades
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Claude Monet Claude Monet was a French painter. Monet was born in Paris on November 14th 1840. He spent his youth in Le Havre as his father worked as a grocer there. Claude Monet was the leader of the 19th century impressionist art movement. Monet preferred to paint outside‚ directly from nature. Nearly all of his work shows his admiration to capture on canvas the changing effects of lights. Impressionism‚ as developed by Monet‚ sought to capture the fleeting‚ momentary aspects of nature‚ especially
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Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840 on the 5th floor of 45 rue Laffitte‚ in the 9th arrondissement of Paris.[3] He was the second son of Claude Adolphe Monet and Louise Justine Aubrée Monet‚ both of them second-generation Parisians. On 20 May 1841‚ he was baptized in the local parish church‚ Notre-Dame-de-Lorette‚ as Oscar-Claude‚ but his parents called him simply Oscar.[3][4] (He signed his juvenilia "O. Monet".) Despite being baptized Catholic‚ Monet later on became an atheist.[5][6] In
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Oscar Claude Monet Oscar Claude Monet was born on November 14‚ 1840 in Paris‚ France. Monet spent most of his childhood in Le Havre‚ France. In Le Havre‚ Monet studied drawing and painted seascapes with a French painter Eugene Louis Boudin in his teens. By 1859 Monet committed himself a career to be an artist. Monet spent a lot of time in Paris around 1859. By 1860 Monet met a pre-impressionist painter‚ Edouard Manet. Monet also met other French painters destined to form the impressionist
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Claude Monet Research Paper 26 April 2010 INTRODUCTION Claude Oscar Monet was born on November 14‚ 1840 in Paris France‚ His father was a wholesale grocer and ship chandler which is how he provided for the family. Monet’s father and mother decided to move to Le Harve in 1845(Seitz‚ Pg 2). By the young age of 15 years old‚ Monet received a reputation as being a great caricature artist (Biography.com). The year 1857 was a tough period for Monet‚ because his mother died (Seitz‚ Pg 5). Two years
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Claude Monet was among the leaders of the French Impressionist movement of the 1870s and 1880s. His 1873 painting Impression‚ Sunrise gave the style its name‚ and as an inspirational talent and a personality‚ he was crucial in bringing its adherents together. Inspired in the 1860s by the Realists’ interest in painting in the open air‚ Monet would later bring the technique to one of its most famous pinnacles with his so-called series paintings‚ in which his observations of the same subject‚ viewed
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Claude Monet started off as a realist and Robert Smithson started as a conceptual artist. Monet wanted to create an impression of what he saw and defied the norms of realistic‚ photographic paintings. The thickness and low consistency of his oil paints allowed him to dramatically express his impression
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Famous French People Claude Monet (1840-1926) Monet was born on November 14‚ 1840 in Paris. He was the second son of Claude-Adolphe and Louise-Justine Aubrée Monet‚ both of them second-generation Parisians. In 1851‚ Monet entered the Le Havre secondary school of the arts. He first became known locally for his charcoal caricatures‚ which he would sell for ten to twenty francs. On the beaches of Normandy in about 1856/1857 he met fellow artist Eugène Boudin who became his mentor and taught him
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