Claude Monet was born November 14,1840,in Paris, France. He spent the majority of his childhood living in La Havre. As a teen he enjoyed drawing and painting landscaped with a French painter named Eugene Louis Boudin. Monet then decided to devote the rest of his life to art. Little did he know he would of been the one of millions to begin the age of impressionistic art. Monet wanted to spend as much time as possible in Paris.

In the 1860's Claude Monet opened a impressionist school with many other artist such as Pierre Auguste, Alfred Sisley and many others.

Monet Continued of with his work, painting simple outside landscapes. Soon he began to have a successful painting style. Daringly Monet began to work with direct sunlight in his painting. At the time this technique was rarely use and almost sometimes forbidden.

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