CLAUDE MONET

Biographical

• Birth date: Nov/14/1840
• Parents: Addphe and Louise Monet
• Education: Ecole nationale superieure des beaux arts, the distinguished national school of fine arts in France.
• Family: Adolphe Monet, Louse Monet and, older brother Leon.

Claude Monet was in almost every sense the founder of French Impressionist paintings, the term itself came from one of his paintings. As a painter of controlled nature,monets garden was a big source of inspiration. He wrote instructions for his gardens with specific color and design.

INFLUENCES

• Le Havre (town in France where Monet spent part of child hood)
• The oceans and rugged coast lines.
• Eduard Manet

PROBLEMS IN LIFE

• Lung cancer
• He also only had one surviving child named Michel

ODD FACTS
Monets father wanted hi, in the grocery business on Jan,28th,1857 Monets mother died, he was only sixteen Claude Monet was born on the 5th floor of 45 Rue Laffitte in Paris.

Themes
He didn't believe in themes he believed art should be like the environment ever changing.

WELL-KNOWN PAINTING

• Women in the garden, 1866
• Autumn on the seine at Argenteuil, 1873
• Impression sunrise, 1873
• Haystacks at Giverny, 1884
• Poplars at Giverny, 1887

Price
Le bassin aux was bought for $80,549 million