Oscar Claude Monet,

Oscar Claude Monet

Biography

• Oscar Claude Monet is a French painter, one of the founders of the artistic movement of Impressionism. • The painter was born in 1840 in a grocer's family in Paris, but spent his youth in Normandy in the city of Le Havre, where his family moved in 1845. There he was engaged in drawing since childhood and even earned money from it – cartoons in his performance were sold quite well in his father's grocery store. There he met his first teacher, Eugene Boudin.

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Personal life

• For the first time, the artist married Camille Doncier, who posed for him for the painting "The Lady in Green", and many other canvases. In this marriage, two sons of Monet were born, and with an interval of eleven years. After his beloved wife died, Alice Goshede appears in Claude's personal life. However, these relations were immediately informal. The lovers legalized them only when Alice's husband, Ernest, died. Alice died in 1911, and in 1914 the artist suffered another loss, his firstborn Jean died.

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Childhood

• Oscar Claude Monet was the second son of grocer Claude Auguste Monet and his wife Louise Justine. Claude was a five-year-old boy when his parents changed their place of residence. The family settled in Normandy, in the small town of Le Havre. Claude didn't like school, he didn't recognize discipline at all. He liked to draw more than anything in the world, although his father hoped that he would continue the family business and also become a grocer. Monet started drawing early, mostly caricatures of friends and teachers. He even tried to sell his masterpieces, and it went. In the window of the salon, where they sold art supplies, his drawings were displayed, anyone could buy them for 20 francs. His parents gave him almost no pocket money, and only thanks to his cartoons, the boy managed to save 2,000 francs.

Death

• Despite all the troubles, hardships, poverty, Monet lived long enough. He had surgery on his eyes twice, cataracts were removed. It was these operations that provoked the violation of the artist's color perception. Now the ultraviolet light seems purple or blue to him. This was fully reflected in his works, which he wrote in the postoperative period. The artist's heart stopped beating on December 5, 1926. He died in the same village of Giverny, at the age of 86. The cause of death was oncology – doctors diagnosed Monet with lung cancer.The resting place of the genius of Impressionism was the church cemetery.