Claude Monet was an impressionist painter born in Paris, France in 1840. When he was five years old, his family moved to Le Havre, near the mouth of the Seine facing the Atlantic Ocean. In 1851, he entered a public middle school. Although he was not good at studying, he learned drawing from the painter François-Charles Auchard and began selling caricatures at a picture frame shop. During this time, he met the landscape painter Eugène Boudin, who taught him and produced his first oil painting, View of Le Helle (1858), which he exhibited at an exhibition in the city of Le Havre.
In 1959, he stayed in Paris with the aim of exhibiting at the Salon. He entered the Academie Suisse, a free art school, but was drafted to Algeria in 1961. He was discharged due to illness in 1962 and recuperated in Le Havre. Encouraged by Dutch painter Johan Jongkind to continue his painting career, he was exempted from military service and returned to Paris. He then studied at the studio of Charles Gleyre, where he met Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Frédéric Bazille, and together they worked outdoors, exploring the depiction of natural light. As he practiced landscape painting in the Forest of Fontainebleau, he discovered the technique of "split brushstrokes," which allows him to express vivid light by quickly juxtaposing primary colors on the canvas without mixing paints.
In 1865, he was selected for the first time to exhibit at the Salon. He continued to submit works, but at the time, academic subjects such as religious and mythological paintings were considered acceptable, and he was repeatedly rejected. Seeking a place where he could freely present his works, he planned a group exhibition with his fellow atelier colleagues, and held the first one in 1874, just as the Franco-Prussian War ended. Monet's Impression, Sunrise (1873), which was exhibited there, became the origin of the term "Impressionist." At the second Salon, Monet exhibited La Japonaise (1875), one of the few works that had a Japanese taste as a theme.
Many of the works shown at the Impressionist exhibition were created in Argenteuil, on the banks of the Seine, where he was based at the time. His paintings of idyllic rural landscapes and portraits of his wife and children show a warm gaze and sense of happiness towards his family. On the other hand, his interest in the modernizing city of Paris can be seen in works such as Pont de l'Europe, Gare Saint-Lazare (1877). In 1877, his patron Ernest Hoschedé went bankrupt, and in 1879 his wife Camille died.
Tokyo workshops, fashion workshops, painting classes, children's classes, IkoYo, Retrip, Jalan, Rurubu, Rakuten Travel, Yahoo , Google Maps, Art Wine, Art Bar, Shimokitazawa, Harajuku, Aoyama, Shibuya, Art and Cafe offers a variety of workshops including great value couples' date plans, student plans and children's plans.
In 1983, he moved to Giverny. He toured the scenic seaside spots of France. In the 1990s, he established a technique of creating series of paintings that conveyed the changes of the weather. He produced the series "Haystacks," "Rouen Cathedral," and "Morning on the Seine." He began working on his representative series "Water Lilies" in 1999, which he spent his entire life completing, and in his later years he completed the "Large Decorative Paintings" that decorate the Musée de l'Orangerie. He died in 1926.
