Claude Monet

Claude Monet was born in Paris on November 14th 1840. At the age of he moved to Le Havre. Monet was considered by his teachers and his parents to be undisciplined and, therefore, unlikely to make a success of his life. Monet has even said, “ I was born undisciplineable. No one was ever able to make me stick to the rules, not even in my youngest days.” (Thie) Monet showed no interest in inheriting his father's …

…was the most intellectual or theoretically minded or because he was able to answer questions that they could not answer, but because in his art he seemed to be more alert to the possibilities latent in their common ideas, which he then developed in his work in a more radical way than did the others.” (Collier’s) Perhaps the real impression made by the impressionist movement was the impact it made on Monet’s life.