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Claude Monet was born November 14,1840,in Paris, France. He spent the majority of his childhood living in La Havre. As a teen he enjoyed drawing and painting landscaped with a French painter named Eugene Louis Boudin. Monet then decided to devote the rest of his life to art. Little did he know he would of been the one of millions to begin the age of impressionistic art. Monet wanted to spend as much time as possible in Paris.
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Claude Monet's paintings from the 1870s, notably Red Boats at Argenteuil (1875), are fine examples of the new Impressionist style. The paintings are essentially illusionist, but ring with a chromatic vibrancy. Monet worked directly from nature and revealed that even on the darkest, gloomiest day, an infinite variety of colors exist. To capture the fleeting lights and hues, Monet had to employ a new painting technique using short brushstrokes filled with individual color. The result was a canvas alive with painterly activity, the opposite of the smooth blended surfaces of the past.
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Claude Monet began drawing when he was a small boy, and received his first art lessons from a local marine painter. Against his family's wishes, he left for Paris in 1862, where he became a leading artist of the Impressionists (in fact, the movement was named after Monet's painting; Impression: Sunrise).
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Claude Monet painted The Studio Boat in 1874. Shortly after Monet moved to Argenteuil, he bought a boat and converted it into a floating studio. He kept it moored near his home and used it to get a vista of the riverbank from the water. As seen here, he ... painted it from the bank to study the effects of shadow and reflection at a distance.
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Claude Monet was born in Paris, but raised on the Normandy coast. He began his art career as a caricaturist. In 1858, painter, Eugene Boudin, introduced a young Monet to landscape. One of Monet’s paintings, Impression: Sunrise, supplied the Impressionists with the name for their new movement. In 1873, Monet set up a floating studio on the Seine and began to paint landscapes in the Impressionist style. In the early years of the movement from 1874 to 1886, their exhibitions received much criticism.
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Claude Monet was born on November 14, 1840 in Paris. When he was five years old he and his family moved to Le Havre. When Monet was 17, his mother died. The year after, Monet met an artist named Eugene Boudin. Boudin convinced Claude Monet to do his painting outdoors and this led to the first outdoor landscape of Claude’s painting career. Monet went to the Swiss Academy, continuing to devote his life to his art.
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