Claude Monet
was born in Paris on the 14th November 1840. When he was five years old, he moved to the port town of Le Havre. Most of his childhood, Monet was considered by both his teachers and his parents to be undisciplined and, therefore, unlikely to make a success of his life. Enforcing this impression, Monet showed no interest in inheriting his father's wholesale grocery. The only thing, which seemed to spark any interest in the child, was painting. He developed a decent reputation in school for the caricatures he enjoyed creating. By the age of fifteen, he was receiving money for his work.
It was at Le Havre that Monet met the painter Eugène Boudin. While Boudin's own paintings have never been ...
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he returned frequently to visit his old friend. The interest that had been made some years earlier was refined and shaped.
"My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature; I learned at the same time to love it." Boudin may have opened Monet's eyes, he may have even convinced the young painter to break with tradition and finish his paintings outdoors, but the young protégéé had yet to truly experience the country's capital. Before long, the lectures of Le Havre on a the young artist came to a end and, in 1859, Monet left for Paris. However, bringing himself to the heart of Europe's art-world, Monet soon found to be disillusioned by the confines of long-since-established principles. He rejected the formal art training that was available in Paris. Bored and frustrated, Monet was to do more painting at the very relaxed Académie Suisse, then in the formal schools for which he had left Le Havre.
In the spring of 1862, Monet was called up for National Service. He went to Algeria ...
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and influential friends: Frédéric Bazille, Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley. While all three of these painters were talented, they came from very different social backgrounds. Noticeably, Renoir was considerably less well-off then his
fellow artists. The unifying force that was to bind the group for so long, however, was the commitment and intense dedication to their new approach to art. One was eventually to be called impressionism.
Gleyre was a very talented instructor and all his students benefited from his persistent teaching methods. Monet remained at his studio for approximately two years. Throughout this time, Monet, Renoir, Sisley and Bazille made frequent trips to the nearby ...
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