Oscar+Claude+Monet

__Amber Stefanowicz 5th period Art__

Hello, I am doing my project on Claude Oscar Monet. Preferably, he likes to be called "Claude Monet" but his parents simply call him Oscar. Claude was a famous French painter was born on November 14th, 1840 on the 5h floor of 45 Rue Laffitte in Paris, France. He was born to Claude Adolph Monet and Louis Monet. He was the 2nd son. On April 1st, 1851, he attended Le Havre secondary school of the arts. At the age of seventeen, his mother had tragically passed away. Because of her death, he went to live with his aunt. Monet tried to commit suicide until he received a pension from Mr. Gaulibert. Throughout the years, Monet had a total of 8 kids. He had 2 kids with Camille Doncieux. After she had died he had 6 more children with Alice Hoschede.

In 1858, Claude met Eugene Boudin who encouraged him to paint outdoors. A year later, he attended the Swiss Academy where he met Pissaro and Courbet. Because Monet wanted to show how he perceived the world in a fraction of a second, he became the founder of impressionism. Impressionism was founded in Paris around 1870. Impressionism is the style of painting in which artists use dabs of color to show how a scene or object looks and how light falls. Impressionism is mainly oil paint on canvas.

Claude's two most famous paintings are "Water-Lillies" and "The Woman With A Parasol." "Water-Lillies" is a landscape painting of water lillies. This painting is very realistic; as real as possible. Monet was very interested on how we view the world. I believe that he painted this picture to show life in his perspective. "The Woman With A Parasol" is a portrait of a girl holding a parasol. This artwork, along with "Water-Lillies," is very realistic as well.

==== Even though these were not his favorite pieces of artwork, Monet also painted pictures which he called "The Artists Family In The Garden," "Impression Sunrise," "La Promenade," etc. Monet was very carefree. All he worried about was the format of his paintings. Eugene Boudin contributed very much to these paintings. Although he did not paint the pictures, Eugene taught Monet how to use oil pants. Monet was considered a leader by his fellow painters because he was the most intellectual or theoretically minded and because he was able to answer questions that they could not answer. ====