CLAUDE MONET

EARLY LIFE

• Born on November 14, 1840
• Second son of Claude Adolphe Monet and Louise Justine Aubrée Monet
• Baptized at Notre Dame de Lorette as Oscar Claude
• Father wanted him to be a ship chandler in the grocery business
• Mother was a singer and supported his desire to become an artist

SCHOOLING

• Le Havre Secondary School of the Arts
• Common people and locals knew him for his charcoal works
• Eugène Boudin was his mentor and taught him how to use oil paints and en plein air techniques
• Left school when his mother died

CAREER AND ARTISTRY

• Traveled and stayed in Paris and met other fellow friends and impressionists
• Drafted into the First Regiment of African Light Calvary for seven years
• Painted in North Africa and Algeria
• Camille Doncieux, his wife, muse, and mother to his children

IMPRESSIONISM

• Fight against Académie des Beaux-Arts
• Independent showcase
• Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers

LATER YEARS

• Camille got tuberculosis
• Second son, Michel
• Camille diagnosed with uterine cancer
• Camille died on September 5, 1879
• He made a study of oils based on her
• Monet created some landscapes documenting the French countryside while living in the village of Vétheuil

LATER YEARS

• Monet rented and bought a house and gardens in Giverny
• He remarried to a woman named Alice who died in 1911
• Blanche, Alice's daughter looked after Monet after Alice's death
• He was developing cataracts
• Monet died of lung cancer on December 5, 1926

IMPRESSIONIST TECHNIQUES AND METHODA

• Local object coloring and juxtaposition of color
• Mist and rain, opacity and visibility
• Light and shade
• Bright colors in dabs and squiggles
• Less concentration on solid objects