Now here s some in formation on him. He was born november 14,1840. He was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature. Especially applied to plein-air landscape paintings.The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impressions, Sunrise.
He was the second son of Claude Adolphe Monet and Louise Justine Aubrée Monet, both of them second-generation Parisians. On 20 May 1841, he was baptized in the local parish church, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette,as Oscar Claude, but his parents simply called him Oscar. In 1845, his family moved to Le Havre in Normandy, his father wanted him to go into the family grocery buisiness.However he wanted to become a artist, his mother was singer.On the first of April 1851, Monet entered Le Havre secondary school of the arts.
When Monet traveled to Paris to visit the Louvre,he witnessed painters copying from the old masters. Having brought his paints and other tools with him, he would instead go and sit by a window and paint what he saw. Monet was in paris for several years and met many other young painters who would become friends and fellow impressionists. Among them was Edouard manet. In June 1861, Monet joined the First Regiment of African Light Cavalry in Alergia for a seven year commitment.
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