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Claude Monet has been one of the most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Leading the Impressionist Movement, he brought forth new ideals in the art world. Monet had a rough beginning, with many critics disapproving of his unconventional art style, but his revolutionary works would come to be loved and would influence many future artists. Claude Oscar Monet (though some sources say Oscar-Claude Monet) was born on November 14, 1840 in Paris (“Claude Oscar Monet Biography”). He and his older brother, Leon (“Claude Monet”), were born to Claude-Adolphe Monet, a grocer, and Louise-Justine Aubrée, a singer. Monet’s father wanted him to continue the family’s grocery store business, but he wanted to be an artist instead (Claude Oscar Monet Biography”). This may have been due to, in part, his mother’s influence—being a singer, she taught him to appreciate the arts (“Claude Monet and His Paintings”). On April 1, 1851, at age ten, Monet attended the Le Havre secondary school of the arts (“Claude Oscar Monet Biography”). He was considered a decent student, but he would much rather be outside with nature than confined in the …show more content…

. . was to share the experience of a blind person suddenly restored to sight, so that he could see the world anew.” Even the way in which he approached painting was out of the ordinary. Instead of trying to paint specific objects, Monet broke the objects down into the colors and shapes that made them up. He once gave advice to an American painter in 1890, saying “When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you, a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow.” Monet wasn’t very religious, and it’s possible that he was even an atheist. Some say he used painting as a sort of form of meditation

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