FRENCH PAINTER CALUDE MONET

Posted: December 4th, 2008 under arts.

A French painter Claude Monet, who was born in 1840, was the founder of French impressionist painting. Monet joined the secondary school of the art in 1851, where he was known as the charcoal caricatures. He then started his first lessons from Jacques Louis David. He had a mentor Eugene Boudin who taught him about oil paints. Monet paintings showed the expression of one?s view before the nature. Paintings talks about the air and landscape expressions. He then traveled to Paris to witness the painter?s who copy from the old paintings. Later in 1872, he painted his famous painting Impression, Sunrise which was displayed in Paris. He then married Camille Doncieus and she gave birth to two boys Michel and Jean. Thirty years after his wife passed away due to tuberculosis and he also painted her on her death bed. After couple of years, he kept on travel and study about the painting
of landscape, seascapes and landmarks. Calude Monet died at the age of 86, due to lung cancer. Nowadays, Oil paintings reproductions of Monet paintings have been done using the computer aided technologies and handmade canvas. These have been displayed in the fine art galleries of different parts of the world.

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