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Claude Monet's Biography

First name: Oscar-Claude

Last name: Monet

Born: 14 November 1840

Place of birth: Paris, France

Died: 5 månad 1926 (aged 86)

Nationaltity: French

Famous Works: Impression Sunrise, Water Lilies, Japanese bridge

Claude Monet is a French painter known for his significant contribution to the Impressionist art movement. Born in Paris on November 14, 1840, he spent his childhood in the city of Havre (Normandy) where his family moved when he was five years old. Monet developed his passion over time, starting with caricature and then, encouraged by his father, painting, which he studied in Paris in 1859 at the Swiss Academy. Monet’s military service in Algeria in 1861 cut short his studies but he nonetheless continued to experiment with different artistic forms. Forced to return to Paris in 1862 following an illness he contracted (pleurisy), konstnär (claude monet) met the Swiss painter Charles Gleyre and also worked with Alfred Sisley,

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Summary of Claude Monet
Claude Monet was the leader of the French Impressionist movement, literally giving the movement its name. As an inspirational talent and personality, he was crucial in bringing its adherents together. Interested in painting in the open air and capturing natural light, Monet would later bring the technique to one of its most famous pinnacles with his series paintings, in which his observations of the same subject, viewed at various times of the day, were captured in numerous sequences. Masterful as a colorist and as a painter of light and atmosphere, his later work often achieved a remarkable grad of abstraction, and this has recommended him to subsequent generations of abstract painters.
Accomplishments
Inspired in part by Édouard Manet, Monet departed from the klar depiction of forms and linear perspective, which were prescribed bygd the established art of the time, and experimented with loose handling, bold color, and strikingly unconventional compos
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Claude Monet
1840-1926
Who Was Claude Monet?
Claude Monet was born in 1840 in France and enrolled in the Academie Suisse. After an art exhibition in 1874, a critic insultingly dubbed Monet's painting style "Impression," since it was more concerned with form and light than realism, and the term stuck. Monet struggled with depression, poverty and illness throughout his life. He died in 1926.
Quick Facts
FULL NAME: Oscar Claude Monet
BORN: November 14, 1840
DIED: December 5, 1926
BIRTHPLACE: Paris, France
SPOUSE: Camille Doncieux (1870-1879) and Alice Hoschede (1892-1911)
CHILDREN: Jean and Michel
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Scorpio
Early Life
One of the most famous painters in the history of art and a leading figure in the Impressionist movement, whose works can be seen in museums around the world, Oscar Claude Monet (some sources say Claude Oscar) was born on November 14, 1840, in Paris. Monet's father, Adolphe, worked in his family's shipping busines