Claude+Monet


 * Oscar Claude Monet was born on November 14, 1840 in Paris, France and died December 5, 1926. He lived to be eighty six years old. Monet was a famous French painter whose work gave a name to the art movement Impressionism, which was concerned with capturing light and natural forms. He was famous for practicing painting outside, but what was special about him was that he produced a full painting from start to finish all outside. Monet was most famous for his paintings //Water Lilies, San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk, and Impression, sunrise.// He was important because he founded the French Impressionist style of painting. He adopted a method of painting where you paint the same picture over and over in order to capture the change of light and seasons, which led him to create his lily pond series that would become one of his best known creations. **


 * Monet is considered to be one of the most famous painters in the history of art and a leader in the Impressionist movement. His paintings can be seen in museums all around the world. He is also known as a painter of light and atmosphere. His later work often showed a lot of abstraction. He has inspired many generations of abstract painters and Impressionists. **


 * In Monet’s lifetime he had two kids, Jean Monet and Michel Monet with his wife Alice Hoschede. He was married once before to Camille Doncieux. Monet impacted and was important to France because most of his paintings depicted French locations and were painted in France. In 1899 he began painting the water lilies, first in vertical views with a Japanese bridge as a central feature, and later in horizontal views. This project of 250 oil paintings would occupy him for the next twenty years of his life. The painting shows a scene in a French pond showing light reflecting off the water with Water Lilies on the surface. Monet was the main spokesperson for the first group of artists who were simply making their art for art's sake and who did not care what the “artistic elite” thought of their work. This is the way that modern art has been made ever since. Claude Monet created Impressionism which is considered to be one of the most important art movements in history. **