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# Claude Oscar Monet

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Claude Oscar Monet's Biography: Claude Oscar Monet, an impressionist painter, is famous for his paintings that he painted in the last 26 years of his life at his garden in Giverny, France. Claude Monet was born on November 14, 1840 in Paris, France. His family moved to Le Havre when he was five. His father wanted him to inherit his grocery store, but Claude wanted to paint. Eugene Boudin taught him painting techniques in 1856. Monet had to serve in the army in Algeria and he got a disease. His aunt Lecadre agreed to get him out of the army if he took an art course at a university. He left the army, but he did not like the traditional painting styles the university taught. He went to a studio where Charles Gleyre taught his painting techniques. Monet could also use the studio and paint its models for a low cost. He painted Camille Doncieux, and later they got married. He painted Women in the Garden in the late 1860s. He didn't finish it for a long time because he only painted it when he had the right light. They moved to a house in Argentile, near the Seine River, after they had their first child. They lived there for six years until Camille died. Monet moved to a house in Giverny where he planted a large garden. He had a variety of plants. He painted many paintings of water lilies, his pond, and bridge. His garden had a meadow with willows and a marsh. He married Alice Hoschede, who he had an affair with when he was married to Camille, in 1892. They lived in the pink house with their ten children. He had a shed where he kept his boats. He would go up the Seine River and paint scenery. He went to Holland in the spring of1886. He painted the scenery around Giverny when he returned. He made paintings of his daughter-in-laws in a rowboat. He painted his garden from 1900 until 1926. Monet's most famous paintings were done near the end of his life when he painted Cathedrals and his garden. His garden was made up of his water garden, and his flower garden. His garden had rhododendrons, water lilies, weeping willows, climbing plants, irises, and lime, apple, maple, cherry and chestnut trees. . He painted a series of paintings of the Rouen Cathedral in the 1880s and 1890s. He painted them at different angles and times of the day. 20 views of the cathedral were exhibited at the Durand-Ruel's gallery in 1895. Many people at the gallery liked his paintings and they bought them for 15,000 francs. He used many bright colors in his paintings. His paintings of his garden are some of the best paintings he's made because they had numerous colors in them. Monet died in 1926.

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