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Monet 1840 - 1926 (86)

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Claude Monet was a French painter, one of the most important representatives of impressionism, the artistic movement with which the artist wants to capture the immediate impression that causes an everyday’s image. It is speculated that the term came from the Monet’s painting «Impression Sunrise». Monet was born on November 14, 1840 in Paris, in a wealthy merchant family. In 1845 the family moved to Le Havre. In 1857 his mother died and an aunt took care of him. That aunt was an amateur painter, she became his first teacher. At start he drew caricatures, but later he met the painter Eugène Boudin who encouraged him and persuaded him to paint landscapes. In 1859 he moved to Paris and joined the artistic circles. In 1861 he saw enlisted and sent to Morocco from where he returned paid a significant amount to get away from his army duty. Determined to become a professional artist began his apprenticeship near the most famous painters of the time. In 1865 he had painted several paintings but his financial situation remained poor, creditors threatened to confiscate his paintings; he destroyed about 200 in order not to fall into their hands.

In 1867 his son was born from his relationship with his Camille, a girl who will marry in 1870. The three of them move to Le Havre where Monet sold paintings and took orders resulting in the improvement of his finances. When the Franco-Prussian War was launched, they went to London for nearly two years. In 1878 they had another son but Camille got sick and eventually died in 1879. Monet took his children and moved to Vétheuil. In 1892 he had a second marriage and about that time the era of affirmation and prosperity began for him. In 1897, he is a well known painter and he made a very successful exhibition in Stockholm. In 1900 he traveled to London and painted many areas and in 1908 he will do the same with Venice. In 1911 his second wife died and in 1914 one of his son during a A’ world war battle. Meanwhile his eyesight was reduced every year and in 1923 he had three surgeries on an eye tumor. He never recovered; he lived the next three years mostly in bed, until he died on December 5, 1926.

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