A Biography of Claude Monet

Claude Oscar Monet was born in Paris, France on November 14, 1840 ("Biography of Claude MONET"). At the age of five Monet's family moved to Le Havre, a small costal town in Normandy France where his father was originally from (Sproccati 34). Claude's father was a shopkeeper, and had hoped that Claude would follow in his footsteps, but later accepted his son's passion and talent for art (Wikipedia).

At the age of fifteen Claude made money selling charcoal caricatures (Wikipedia). Later, Claude used the money made from his caricatures to live off of while he studied at the Academie Suisse in Paris, France (Sproccati 34). While still a budding young artist in Normandy, however, Monet came into contact with his first mentor, Eugene Boudin. During their time together, Boudin taught Monet a technique of painting known as en plein air, which was simply outdoor painting (Wikipedia). In 1857, when Claude was only seventeen, his mother, Louise, died.

In the autumn of 1860, Monet began a seven-year military service commitment in Algeria. After two years, Claude contracted typhoid and was sent home on sick-leave. While back in Le Havre M

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ude MONET"). His Work Very early in his career, Monet worked with charcoal and it was through this medium that he first became locally famous drawing caricatures of his teachers. It was a fellow painter and who would eventually become his mentor, Eugene Boudin, whom he befriended on the beaches of Normandy, who introduced him to oils. From then on, Monet worked virtually exclusively with oil on canvas (Wikipedia, "Claude Monet"). Monet was committed to following in and developing the styles of the Barbizon painters keeping true to close observation and naturalistic representation. Though the Barbizon painters completed only preliminary sketches outdoors, en plein air, Monet was known to work directly on large-scale canvases outside and then move inside to his studio where he reworked and completed them (Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Claude Monet"). Aiming to capture nature more accurately than his European predecessors and having been influenced by Japanese woodblock prints, Monet utilized asymmetrical arrangements of forms to emphasize two-dimensional surfaces. It was Monet's use of color that established his "lines." Monet is particularly known for his use of color and how his color changed throughout the course of his c
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