monet

Claude Oscar Monet was born in Paris on November 14,1840. When Monet was a child his family moved to Le Havre. Monet did not take schooling very seriously and so began to draw caricature in the margins of his books. He became good at this and was soon creating caricature pictures of the townspeople and shop owners in and around Le Havre. In 1858 he met up with Eugene Boudin who encouraged the young Monet to expand beyond caricature. The younger artist soon saw the wisdom in Boudin's words and began exploring nature and it's colors and forms. Monet's family moved to the port town of Le Havre in 1845.
He took his early art lessons from the painter, Eugene Boudin. Boudin, who worked up sketches of out doors, encouraged Monet to do the same. Though Boudin was never a highly regarded artist, he played a very important in Monet's artistic career. After some time, Monet and Boudin had formed a friendship that would last a lifetime. in 1857
his mother Louise Monet died...