Claude Monet Research Paper

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Oscar Claude Monet or best known as Claude Monet was a French painter who did various paintings of the outdoors. Claude Monet had many struggles with depression, money and illness. Monet’s artwork gave the name to the movement of art impressionism. Monet was focused on capturing light and natural patterns of nature.
Claude Monet was born in Paris, France on November 14, 1840. Monet’s father Adolphe worked in the family shipping business and his mother, Louise took care of their family. Also, she was a trained singer and she liked poetry. In 1885 at the age of five Monet and his family moved to Le Havre, Normandy, which was a port city. He grew up there with his older brother Leon and Monet went to school, but he did not like to be restricted …show more content…

The painting was an oil on canvas and it is currently in the Musee D Orsay. The dimensions of the painting are 36.22 inches wide by 35.04 inch high. Monet’s water lilies are also called Nympheas Bleus, Nymphaea means botanical name for water lily. Monet lived in Giverny, Paris so when he lived there he grew white water lilies in a pond so he focused on painting it. The pond became his inspiration for his painting. One of his greatest masterpieces was his garden painting and his garden is in at his house in Giverny. In the water lilies painting there is lots of blue, green, a little bit of purple, little bit of yellow and a little bit of white. The texture of the painting is rough because it was oil painting and it might represent the water in the pond. However the painting is fluent and very detailed of the pond with water lilies because since that the source of his inspiration was the pond so that he chose a part of the pond to draw. We can interpret that he loved the idea of water lilies and the outdoors. The majority of his painting is painted outside. We can tell that the time it took to glorify the gardens and the ponds took a long time because all of his paintings are of water lilies or a bridge with water lilies underneath in the

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