Claude Monet Research Paper

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The impressionist world Claude Monet is one of the most recognizable and most famous impressionist. The impressionist movement was in short, drawing what you saw around you. He struggled with poverty all his life but still managed to produce amazing paintings. He may have started in the military but he is an amazing painter. Let's look at early life. Early life and influence Monet was born on the fourteenth of November 1840. He died on the fifth of December 1926. Monet was born in Paris, France. When he was a child, his parents died and he was sent to live with his aunt. Monet was always interested in nature as a child. His aunt commented that he was obsessed with drawing what he saw and would never put his paint’s down. Monet went to Academie Suisse in Paris but war broke out and he was drafted. After contracting typhoid fever in the African Cavalry his aunt bargained to have him let out of the service if …show more content…

They became close friends. He studied with a fellow classmate monet and both became artists. He used only nine colors of paint. Lead white, madder red, , French ultramarine, black ivory, cadmium yellow, viridian, and emerald green. I chose bridge over a pool of water lilies because it gives me a calming peaceful feeling. When I look at it it just fills me with hope and makes me want to meditate. The painting bridge over a pool of water lilies was based off of his garden where he built a bridge and a pool of water lilies in Giverny. He did not care much for the different kinds of trees and lilies. What he liked was the reflections and so that was what he spent the most time on. He said it was peaceful and inducing meditation. His painting has been compared to Japanese bridge prints. It is probably not a coincidence that he was an avid collector of Japanese prints. He said he had “no other wish than to mingle closely with nature”. Finally we look at his adult

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