My artist's full name is... Oscar Claude Monet
His date of birth is... November 14th 1840
His date of death is... December 5th 1926
His father's name was... Claude Adolphe Monet
His father's occupation was... a grocery business
His mother's name was... Louise Justine Aubrée Monet
His mother's occupation was... a grocery business
His siblings were: one older brother
He went to school to Le Havre secondary school of Arts. He dropped out when he was sixteen because his mother passed away.
He was married once to a woman named Camille Doncieux. They got married in 1870 but she died of tuberculosis in 1879.
While he was alive there was a lot happening in the world:
- Civil War in 1861 to 1865
- First World War in 1914 to 1918
- French occupation of Mexico in 1863 to 1867
- Franco-Prussian war in 1870 to 1871
- War of the Pacific in 1879 to 1884
He did not have an easy life, he had to deal with the death of his mother, the death of his wife and in the last years that he was alive he lived in Paris during the first world war.
One thing most people might not know about this artist is: he lived in The Netherlands for a while.
Monet mostly worke with watercolor and he is associated with the movement called Impresionism.
Monet's most famous works include: Sunrise, Women in the Garden & La Grenouillère.
Two pieces I like are:
- Water Lilies (1906), because I saw the painting in the movie Titanic and I love that movie. It is also the reason why I picked Monet to be the artist I'd write about because I don't know a lot of artists.
- Poppies Blooming (1873), because my grandma was called Poppy and she passed away before my mom even met my dad so I'd want to talk about that painting because it reminds me of her.
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