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4. Extension to Art
Monet’s Water Lilies
Claude Monet was born on the 14th of november, 1840, in Paris. his full name was oscar-Claude Monet.
When he was a child he began drawing cartoons and was quite good at it, but would often get in trouble at school for doing caricatures of his teachers.
By the time he was fifteen, a local art-supply store started to show his caricatures in its window. That made him very popular, and many people began to buy his work.
later in his life he met eugène Boudin. he really liked Monet’s work, and introduced him to outdoor painting, Monet didn’t want to be a painter at first, but later decided to join his mentor.
it is important to consider that painting outdoors was considered unartistic because most artists painted in studios. Boudin taught him much about his way of painting, which was quick, and was supposed to capture an image
exactly like what it looked like at the first moment you saw it.
in 1860 Monet was drafted in the army, and couldn´t paint during that period. he later studied in Paris, and it was during that time that he met many other artists like Pierre-august renoir, alfred Sisley, and Camille Pissarro. The painters decided to form the Society of anonymous Painters, Sculptors, and Printers, they wanted to be different from previous painters, and they wanted to break the rules of traditional painting.
They were later known as the French Impressionists. The name came from one of Monet´s painting called Impression, soleil levant, which an art critic named an Exhibition of the impressionist, but he meant it as an insult.
Impression, soleil levant
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