Claude Monet Is Perhaps One Of The Most World Renowned Impressionist Painters. H

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Term Paper Title	Claude Monet Is Perhaps One Of The Most World Renowned Impressionist Painters. H
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Claude Monet is perhaps one of the most world renowned impressionist painters.  He was born in Paris on the Nov. 14th 1840.  When he was five years old, he moved to the port town of Le Havre. For much of his childhood, Monet was considered by both his teachers and his parents to be undisciplined and, therefore, unlikely to make a success of his life. Enforcing this impression, Monet showed no interest in inheriting his father's wholesale grocery. The only subject which seemed to spark any interest in the child was painting. He developed a decent reputation
in school l for the caricatures he was fond of creating. By the age of
fifteen, he was receiving commission for his work.
       It was at Le Havre that Monet met the painter Eugène Boudin. While Boudin's own paintings have never been held in that high regard, he is seen as having played a critical role in the education of Monet. Born of a seafaring family in 1824, Boudin was obsessed with the idea of painting outdoors or en plein air . The two painters met in 1856 and, at first, Monet resisted Boudin's offer of tuition but he eventually relaxed his protestations and before long, the two had forged a relationship that was to last a lifetime. Although Monet soon left Le Havre to spend a large part of his life traveling throughout Europe, he returned frequently to visit his old friend. It was truly a life altering friendship.  "My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature; I learned at the same time to love it. " -Monet

           Boudin may have opened Monet's eyes, he may have even persuaded the
young painter to break with tradition and finish his paintings outdoors, but the young protégé had yet to truly experience the country's capital.  Before long, the limitations of Le Havre on a burgeoning young artist became all too apparent and, in 1859, Monet left for Paris. However, having displaced himself to the heart of Europe's art-world, Monet soon found himself disillusioned by the confines of long-since established princip les. He rejected the formal art training that was available in
Paris. Bored and frustrated, Monet was to do more painting at the very relaxed Academie Suisse then in the formal schools for which he had left Le Havre.

            In the spring of 1862, Monet was called up for National Service. He went
to Algeria for a year with a prestigious regiment: les Chaussures d'Afrique . This experience was to have a profound effect on Monet. The landscapes and colors o...

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