"Monet - this is just an eye, but, my God, but what!"
Paul Cezanne
Claude Monet was called the "man of the sun" because of the bright light,
which differs most of his landscapes.
A short biography of Claude Monet.
Claude Monet is a French painter, a pioneer of Impressionism. November 14, 1840 in the family of hereditary Parisians Claude Adolphe Monet and Louise Justine Aubrey Monet was born a boy who was baptized in the Baptist church with the name Oscar Claude six months later. In 1845, the family moved to the city of Le Havre in Normandy, where his father began to prepare his son for the career of a merchant of naval gear. However, despite his father's insistence, little Oscar wanted to devote his life to art, and Justine, a singer by profession, supported him in this.
At the age of eleven, Monet entered the Havre Art School; At the same time, he began to gain popularity as a talented cartoonist. In the period of training, Monet was lucky to meet painter Eugene Boudin in the city. This acquaintance had a great influence on the young man; it was Buden who taught Monet the basics of treating oil paints and techniques "in the open air" - that is, outside the workshop, in the open air.
After leaving school at age 16, Monet continued to practice and hone his skills. For several years he went to Paris, where he met many future outstanding painters, including Eduard Manet.
In 1861, the artist was sent to Algeria for service in the army. After a while, getting sick with typhoid fever and having defended his widowed aunt to help him financially, paid off from military service and returned to his homeland.
Since 1862, together with other novice painters, Monet attended the courses of the artist Charles Gleir. Soubuciki had similar views on painting and gravitated to work in the open air, they strove to convey the natural colors of nature, the invisible movements of water and air, to display on their canvases barely perceptible shades of flowers. These views later formed the basis of the philosophy of Impressionism in artistic creation.
In his Parisian period, Monet wrote a lot in the hope that his works would be interested in the Salon - a prestigious annual exhibition, which received canvases by far from all painters. His first widely known painting was the portrait of Camilla Bonsjö exhibited in the Salon.
Bonsio became his wife in 1870. Almost immediately the couple moved to England in connection with the start of the Franco-Prussian War.
A year later, Monet moved to the Netherlands. The Dutch period is very productive - for twenty months the artist creates almost three dozen paintings and countless sketches, sketches and sketches.
Returning to France in 1872, already formed painter and impressionist, Monet continues to work, living a quiet rural life, among the inspiring picturesque gardens.
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Since the early 1910s, Monet has developed a terrible disease - cataracts. Fortunately, the artist did not lose sight, and, having transferred two operations to remove cataracts in 1923, acquired the ability to see ultraviolet rays that are inaccessible to the sight of an ordinary person (for example, he saw certain objects in a certain light bluish-violet when for everyone else they remained white).
Claude Monet died on December 5, 1926 from lung cancer and was buried in the cemetery of the church in Giverny, a town in Upper Normandy. In his house in the same city was subsequently opened his museum.
