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About Claude Monet
Claude Monet also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (November 14, 1840 – December 5, 1926) was a French impressionist painter. Monet was born in Paris , France , but his family moved to Le Havre in Normandy when he was five. His father wanted him to go into the family grocery store business, but Claude Monet wanted to paint. On the beaches of Normandy , he met Eugène Boudin, who taught him en plein air (outdoor) techniques for painting, rather than painting in a studio. When Monet travelled to Paris , France to visit The Louvre, he would see many painters imitating famous artist's work. Monet, having brought his paints and other tools with him, would instead go and sit by a window and paint what he saw Monet served in the army in Algeria for two years of a seven-year commitment (1860 – 1862), but upon his contracting typhoid his aunt Madame Lecadre intervened to get him out of the army if he agreed to complete an art course at a university. Disillusioned with the traditional art taught at universities, instead in 1862 he joined the studio of Charles Gleyre in Paris , where he met Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frederic Bazille, and Alfred Sisley. Together they shared new approaches to art, which later came to be known as impressionism, featuring open spaces and light painted with thick brushstrokes. |
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