Claude Monet

Claude-Oscar Monet was born in Paris, France on November 14, 1840. The Monet families had come to Paris in the late eighteenth century. Monet was baptized on May 20, 1841 at the local parish church, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. In 1845 Claude Monet's father decided to move the family to the Norman port of Le Havre. Monet entered the college communal du Havre when he was just ten years old in 1850. As a young student, he studied history, Latin, Greek, math and French …

…colors changed. This way he painted several long series of paintings including haystacks, poplar trees, cathedral, and water lilies. He painted water lilies his last ten years of life. He died of lung cancer on December 5, 1926 in France, Giverny. I thought he was an excellent artist who first introduced Impressionism. I loved his ideas of paintings the same things over and over again in different seasons, so he can get a different effect each time.