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Monet was born in Paris, in his five years old when his family moved to Le Havre in Normandy (Le Havre). His father hoped that he had inherited the family grocery store, but you want to become an artist Monet.
He was initially a minor celebrity because of his charcoal cartoons, these paintings asking price 10-12 francs. On the beach in Normandy, he met the artist Eugene • Boudin (Eugene Boudin), he later became a professor of Monet's mentor, and he learned oil painting.
When Monet came to the Louvre in Paris, where he saw many painters imitating famous artists. As a result, to carry the paint and tools he sat next to a window began to draw what he saw. And then to return to his birthplace in 1859, started to learn painting.
Monet in Algeria became a soldier for two years (1860 -1862), the seven years he served before the expiration of the contract, as typhoid fever, Monet's aunt Lecadre wife rescued him from the troops out and let him to finish college The arts courses. Because the university's traditional arts and education to make him wake up in Paris in 1862, Monet joined the Charles • Glaire (Charles Gleyre) studios. Where he identified the knot Pierre - Auguste Renoir • Frederick • Bazillais (Frederic Bazille), as well as Alfred • Sisley (Alfred Sisley). Together, they created a new art practices, that is outdoors and under natural light painting with thick paint, later known as the Impressionists.
In 1866, he Camille • Doncieux (Camille Doncieux) models created for the "green woman" (The Woman in the Green Dress). Soon after, Doncieux that pregnant and gave birth to their first child, so that (Jean).
In the Franco-Prussian War (Franco-Prussian War, 1870 Nian -1,871 years), the Monet came to the United Kingdom asylum. Where he was studying and Constable John • J • M • W • Turner (JMWTurner) works.
Return to France after the 1872 or 1873, Monet in Le Havre as the background of a landscape created the "impression • Sunrise." It is the first time in 1874 Impressionist painters show appearance, it is now on display at the 巴黎马蒙丹 • Monet Museum (Musée Marmottan-Monet). According to the subject of the painting, art critic Louis Leroy • put forward the "Impressionism" at all. In 1870 is the year of Monet's most sad, because his wife, trends, but also left a 12-year-old son and 1-year-old second son.
Alice Hoschede decided to help Monet raising his two children. They lived in Poissy (Poissy), but there do not like Monet. In April 1883, they moved to the Eure region of Normandy, Giverny. In 1884, he began to travel around the world, he went to London and the United States. 1890, he began to concentrate on in order to create the theme of water lily. He planted a large garden where he completed the rest of his life he painted. Monet and Hoschede married in 1892.
In the nineteenth century, the eighties and nineties, Monet began a series of painting, that is, in a different light and angle of an object with a continuous draw. His first series of work, "Rouen Cathedral" is at different angles and different times of day to paint. In 1895, from 20 different angles by the paintings of the cathedral in the Durande - Luer (Gurand-Ruel) gallery display. He also drew a pile of rice straw series.
From 1883 to 1908, the Monet painted many landscapes in the Mediterranean and the seascape. Unfortunately, his second wife died in 1911, and in 1914 his son died. Monet in 1923, had undergone two cataract operations.
He was December 5, 1926 died, buried in the Giverny church cemetery.
In 2004, Monet in the Parliament and the Effects of Sun in the Fog in London, sold more than 20 million U.S. dollars.
• Monet specializes in experimental and performance techniques of light and shadows. His most important is to change the style of the shadows and contours of the painting in Monet's paintings do not see a very clear shadow, but also do not see the highlights or flat coated type of contour lines. In addition, the Monet for the use of very fine color, his paintings with the theme of many of the same experiment for the perfect expression of color and light. Monet had long explored the performance of optical effects of color and the air, often at different times and light, the right to make pieces of the same objects that depict changing light and colors from nature in expressing the feeling of an instant. His work is represented Impression, Sunrise Rouen