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Claude Monet

Oscar-Claude Monet (UK: /ˈmɒneɪ/, US: /moʊˈneɪ, məˈ-/, French: [klod mɔnɛ]; 14 November 1840 –
5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionism painting who is seen as a
key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it.[1]
During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of impressionism's
philosophy of expressing one's perceptions of nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor)
landscape painting.[2] The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting
Impression, soleil levant, exhibited in 1874 (the "exhibition of rejects") initiated by Monet and his
associates as an alternative to the Salon.

Monet was raised in Le Havre, Normandy, and became interested in the outdoors and drawing
from an early age. Although his mother, Louise-Justine Aubrée Monet, supported his ambitions
to be a painter, his father, Claude-Adolphe, disapproved and wanted him to pursue a career in
business. He was very close to his mother, but she died in January 1857 when he was sixteen
years old, and he was sent to live with his childless, widowed but wealthy aunt, Marie-Jeanne
Lecadre. He went on to study at the Académie Suisse, and under the academic history painter
Charles Gleyre, where he was a classmate of Auguste Renoir. His early works include
landscapes, seascapes, and portraits, but attracted little attention. A key early influence was
Eugène Boudin who introduced him to the concept of plein air painting. From 1883, Monet lived in
Giverny, also in northern France, where he purchased a house and property and began a vast
landscaping project, including a water-lily pond.

Monet's ambition to document the French countryside led to a method of painting the same
scene many times so as to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons. Among
the best-known examples are his series of haystacks (1890–1891), paintings of Rouen Cathedral
(1892–1894), and the paintings of water lilies in his garden in Giverny that occupied him
continuously for the last 20 years of his life.

Frequently exhibited and successful during his lifetime, Monet's fame and popularity soared in
the second half of the 20th century when he became one of the world's most famous painters
and a source of inspiration for a burgeoning group of artists.

Biography

Birth and childhood

Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840 on the fifth 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-
Claude Monet
generation Parisians. On 20 May 1841, he was
baptised in the local Paris church, Notre-
Dame-de-Lorette, as Oscar-Claude, but his
parents called him simply Oscar.[3][4] Despite
being baptised Catholic, Monet later became
an atheist.[5][6]

In 1845, his family moved to Le Havre in


Normandy. His father, a wholesale merchant,
wanted him to go into the family's ship-
chandling and grocery business,[7][8] but Monet
wanted to become an artist. His mother was a
singer, and supported Monet's desire for a
Monet c. 1899
career in art.[9]
Born Oscar-Claude Monet
On 1 April 1851, he entered Le Havre 14 November 1840
[10]
secondary school of the arts. He was an Paris, Kingdom of
apathetic student who, after showing skill in France
art from young age, began drawing caricatures
Died 5 December 1926
and portraits of acquaintances at age 15 for
(aged 86)
money.[11] He began his first drawing lessons
Giverny, France
from Jacques-François Ochard, a former
student of Jacques-Louis David.[11] In around Education Académie Suisse,
Beaux-Arts de Paris
1858, he met fellow artist Eugène Boudin, who
would encourage Monet to develop his Years active 1865–1926
techniques, teach him the "en plein air"
Known for Painting
(outdoor) techniques for painting and take
Monet on painting excursions.[12][13] Monet Notable work Impression, Sunrise
thought of Boudin as his master, whom "he Rouen Cathedral

owed everything to" for his later success.[14] series


London Parliament
[15]
In 1857, his mother died. He lived with his series
father and aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre; Water Lilies

Lecadre would be a source of support for Haystacks

Monet in his early art career.[13][15] Poplars


List of paintings

Movement Impressionism

Spouses Camille Doncieux


(m. 1870; died 1879)​

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