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Claude Monet has been in almost every sense the founder of French Impressionist painting, the term itself derives from one of his paintings, Impression, Sunrise. As a child, his father wanted him to enter the grocery trade, but his heart was in the artistic profession and at the age of 11 he entered the secondary school in Le Havre. During his t...
Claude Monet has been in almost every sense the founder of French Impressionist painting, the term itself derives from one of his paintings, Impression, Sunrise. As a child, his father wanted him to enter the grocery trade, but his heart was in the artistic profession and at the age of 11 he entered the secondary school in Le Havre. During his time in secondary school, he was known for caricatures that he designed for the locals from ten to twenty francs each. Five years later, he met the artist Eugene Bouldin, who taught him the techniques of painting "en plein air" and became his mentor. At the age of 16, Monet left school for Paris, where instead of studying the great works of art of the masters, he sat by the window and painted what he saw outside.
When he was twenty-one, he joined the first regiment of the African light ordeal in Algeria for a seven-year tour. But his stay was interrupted after two years in which he was struck by a typhoid fever attack, and his aunt organized his release, as long as he continued his studies of art. On his return to Paris, he studied the methods "en plein air", together with Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frederic Bazille and Alfred Sisley, and developed the pictorial style that would soon become known as Impressionism. At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war, Monet fled to England, also traveling to Holland before his return to Paris, after which he exhibited many of his works in 1874, at the first Impressionist Exposition.
After the death of his wife Camille to tuberculosis after the birth of their second child, Monet was determined to never live in poverty again, and was determined to create some of the best works of art of the 19th century. In 1890, he was prosperous to buy a large house and a garden, where he would continue to paint for the rest of his life.
As a painter of a controlled nature, Monet's garden was one of his greatest sources of inspiration. As such, he wrote precise instructions for his gardeners, with specific designs and color schemes, and he accumulated a large collection of botanical books. At one time, he hired seven gardeners at one time. After his death from lung cancer, his only surviving son, Michel, was the heir to the Monet family, which was restored and opened to the public, including the vast gardens.
Source: WikiArt.org
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