🎨 Monet's life (a brief summary)
🧒Childhood (1840~)
• 1840: Born in Paris, France
• He moved to Le Havre, a port city in Normandy, during his childhood.
• He showed talent for drawing from a young age, and became a local celebrity for his caricatures.
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👨🎨The Young Artist's Challenge (1860s)
• He attended art school in Paris, but rebelled against the academic education
• Influenced by painters Boudin and Manet , he developed a new style of "painting light outdoors"
• 1874: Published "Impression, Sunrise" and became the origin of the name "Impressionism" (*born ironically)
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🌿Exploring light and nature (1880s-1900s)
• Established a method for painting the same motif at different times of day to capture the changes in natural light
• Examples: "Rouen Cathedral", "Haystacks", "Poplar Trees"
• He settled in Giverny and created a garden and a Japanese-style pond (a water lily pond).
• In his later years, he became absorbed in his "Water Lilies" series and began to approach abstract painting.
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👓Later years and death (1900s-1926)
• Although he suffered from cataracts in his later years, he continued to create
• 1926: He died at the age of 86. His last work, "Water Lilies," still inspires many people today.
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🌸Monet 's quotes
"Color is my life"
"I just want to be honest with what I see."
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📍Monet 's masterpiece
• "Impression: Sunrise"
• "Water Lilies" series
• "Haystacks"
• "Rouen Cathedral"
• "Japanese Bridge"