General info/Style/Period

Claude Monet was born November 14th, 1840. He went to Le Havre school of the arts when he was about 11 years old. This is where he became locally known for his caricatures. Eugene Boudin became his first mentor and was the one who taught him how to use oil paints. As Monet saw other painters coping the old masters, he simply painted what he saw. When the French-Prussian war broke out he took refuge in England, there he studied works of Joseph Turner. These works would later inspire Monet's studies of color and light. Monet soon became the father of the Impressionistic style in France. He painted mostly landscapes from different angles and different times during the day. Like other impressionists, he painted with tiny brushstrokes and let the texture of the paint take over. During this time period the early impressionists broke the rules of "academic" painting. The rules that said everything had to be very realistic and very accurate. Instead, these painters let their brushstrokes show and were very loose with the paint. They also used "broken" brush strokes, which are stokes of random colors placed next to each other to create an illusion of that color.

By:Ashley Rastetter