Claude Monet
Oscar Claude Monet was an amazing artist. Monet was born November 14, 1840 in Paris, France. He began drawing lessons as a child and began selling caricatures by the age of 17. Monet was the second son of Claude Adolphe Monet and Louise Justine Aubree Monet. At 20 years old, Claude Monet was baptized in the local parish church. Monet died from lung cancer on December 5, 1926 in Giverny, France at the age of 86.
At the age of 30, Claude Monet married Camille Doncieux on June 28, 1870. Monet and Camille had their first son, Jean Monet, in 1867 and they had their second son, Michel, on March 17, 1878. Camille died on September 5, 1879 at the young age of thirty-two from tuberculosis. Monet painted Camille on her death bed. July 1892, Monet married his second wife, Alice, who died in 1911. Tragically, Monet’s oldest son, Jean, also died in 1914.
Claude Monet was an impressionist. Monet loved painting in his garden in Giverny, France. His gorgeous garden had a water garden and a japanese style bridge with many beautiful flowers. Monet loved painting what he knew best like water lilies, haystacks, gardens, and people. He used his wives and children as models for his love of painting. In 1923, Claude Monet was nearly blind, but that did not stop him from painting. Using light and its effects on color made Monet a founder of French impressionist painting.
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