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Welcome to the Gallery of. Claude oscar Monet. French Impressionist. Claude Monet History. Creator of Impressionism art during mid 1800’s to early 1900’s. Philosophy of expressing perceptions before nature. How did it begin?.
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Welcome to the Gallery of Claude oscar Monet
Claude Monet History • Creator of Impressionism art during mid 1800’s to early 1900’s. • Philosophy of expressing perceptions before nature.
How did it begin? • Work began as an other hopeful artist drawing charcoal characters. • In Paris he visited the famous museum The Louvre.
More Inspiration • Claude Monet meets Eugène Boudin who encourages him to paint out of doors • This influenced his many wonderful outdoor paintings.
Love Sick • La Femme à la Robe Verte • This painting featured his wife Camille Doncieux who died after childbirth. • Shortly after Monet attempted suicide.
Mid-Life • Monet remarried Alice Hoschedé 1892 and helped raise her six children. • WWI influenced his work of the weeping willow paintings homage to the fallen French Soldiers. • Shortly after this he developed cataracts that may have contributed to the blur in some of his later paintings.
death • Surprisingly Monet died of lung cancer. • He is buried in Giverny Church cemetery in his Hometown. It is now one of the Main tourist attractions Around the world.
Credit • Information gathered from Biography of Claude Monet giverny.org, wikipedia.org, and ibiblio.org, nationalgalleryofart.com • Pictures edited in photoshop, origionally taken from google.com/images/Monet, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet