Claude Monet was born on November 14, 1840 in Paris. He grew up near the sea in a city called Le Haver, when he was young he was good in painting and remarkable to the extend that any art gallery would like to hang his paints in their walls and window. Nothing stopped Monet to reach his goal even his parents, he studies art in a cheap art school in Paris. When he grew up, he used to travel around France cities just to find a good places to paint, he got married to Camille she used to travel with him, and he had two sons called Jean and Micheal. He was famous as one of the Impressionism which are using broken colors most of his paints you feel it alive, he liked to paint mostly landscape. After a couple years Camile died (1878), then after a few years he got married to a woman called Alice. They moved to live in Giverny which is a small town near to Paris. There he was more explored to the landscape paintings, he was obsessed by his Japanese bridge and his lily pond. His paintings are in the most popular museums in USA and Europe.He died in 1926 in Giverny.
By: Fatima
Early Years
La Grenouillère
1869; Metropolitan Museum of Art
First Impressionist paintings
La Promenade 1875
Paris
Boulevard des Capucines 1873
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Rouen Cathedral: Full Sunlight
1894; Louvre, Paris
Claude Monet is one of my favorite artists and my moms favorite. Beautiful choice of work that you decided to include in your post.
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