Claude-Oscar Monet was born in Paris, France on November 14, 1840. The Monet families had come to Paris in the late eighteenth century. Monet was baptized on May 20, 1841 at the local parish church, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. In 1845 Claude Monet's father decided to move the family to the Norman port of Le Havre. Monet entered the college communal du Havre when he was just ten years old in 1850. As a young student, he studied history, Latin, Greek, math and French grammar. He also took drawing courses offered by Jacques-Francois Ochard. In his earlier years he took art lessons from painter, Eugene Boudlin, who introduced Monet to outdoor painting. Through his entire life Claude Monet was doing only one kind of work: drawing and painting.
             Monet's style of art was different than other artists of his time. He painted with globs, streaks, smears and bright colored brush strokes. He mixed different colors together. People of his day didn't like his paintings. Monet painted how he felt about the picture. He didn't care what others thought about his paintings. He kept on painting his style. They called it Impressionism. He liked to paint water scenes. He made a boat into a floating studio. He especially liked to paint outdoors in his gardens. He painted very large pictures. Some were over forty feet wide. He liked to paint the same things aver again at different seasons of the year, as the colors changed. This way he painted several long series of paintings including haystacks, poplar trees, cathedral, and water lilies. He painted water lilies his last ten years of life. He died of lung cancer on December 5, 1926 in France, Giverny.
             I thought he was an excellent artist who first introduced Impressionism. I loved his ideas of paintings the same things over and over again in different seasons, so he can get a different effect each time.
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