Monet Claude - biography and creativity

Monet Claude. This name was heard even by those who are very, very far from the painting and the world of bohemia. Today, the paintings of this artist leave the auction just for fabulous amounts and dissolve with unknown buyers in private collections, and after a while again float up to be sold for even more money.

What kind of person was he? What paths of life led him to the path of painting? And what helped in this way to achieve such a brilliant success?

Youth years

It is not known how the life of the future painter would have developed, if not for his father's stinginess. Although their family can not be called very rich, but in need they too were never. However, Claude-Adolphe Monet - the father of the boy - believed that his young offspring is quite capable of dispensing with pocket money. But the boy this situation seemed in a completely different light.

Monet Claude was a moderately independent, slightly hooliganistic and very freedom-loving teenager. He escaped from school at any convenient opportunity and climbed the nearby rocks, enjoying freedom. When he could not escape, the restless boy at the lessons amused himself by drawing caricatures of teachers and classmates.

Soon, Monet Claude mastered the skill of the cartoonist almost in perfection. His work was so successful that fellow practitioners were willing to pay for them than the young artist was happy to use to replenish his meager budget. Parents were not enthusiastic about this venture, but they did not intend to interfere with his son.

Meeting with the artist

After a while, Monet's caricatures were already exhibited in a city store, together with the work of a certain Eugene Buden, a local painter. Eugene recognized the talent in the strokes of simple pictures of a young man, advised him to develop it and offered his help.

Monet Claude politely refused, as he could, because Buden's work did not impress him at all. However, at some point, for the sake of decency, he still had to go to a meeting with the artist. And Claude really enjoyed their communication.

Monet really was lucky with the mentor. He did not put pressure on the young man, he did not impose his opinion, and in general his studies with him were not at all like a school drill. Boudin unselfconsciously shared his experience and taught Claude to see the beauty of the surrounding world. See it in your own way and immediately display on canvas.

Further training

Not much time passed, and Eugene Boudin advised the young man to go to study in Paris. Claude-Adolphe Monet allowed his son to leave, but was not going to spend a cent on his education. He tried to propose a son to the place of a scholarship holder in the art school of his native city, but when he was refused in his application for a scholarship, he completely washed his hands.

However, the eighteen-year-old boy did not stop this. He collected his few belongings and savings and went to conquer Paris. Upon his arrival in the capital, he got acquainted with many artists, asked how he was trained, and realized that the School of Fine Arts, where he intended to enter, did not suit him.

He realized that by doing self-education and working hard, you can achieve much better results than sitting out on boring lectures. And maybe, not the least role was played by his freedom-loving nature, who, even at school, did not let him sit still. Because of this decision, the father completely refused to help him, but Monet did not back down and stayed in Paris.

Military service

Biography of Claude Monet will not be complete, if not to mention his service in the army. He was drafted at the age of twenty and sent to Algeria. At that time it was a very troubled area, and the world could never see the work of one of the founders of impressionism, but fortunately, the young soldier caught typhoid fever and did not fall into the zone of direct military operations.

And thanks to the patronage of her troubled aunt and her financial help, he managed to pay off his compulsory military service and return to his homeland in 1862.

Confession

The young artist persistently continued to sharpen his skills. Soon, the paintings of Claude Monet began to attract public attention. The breakthrough in this regard was a work called Camille, or a portrait of a lady in a green dress. Soon the girl depicted on this canvas became the artist's wife.

In fact, Camille was a favorite model of Monet, and her image can be seen almost on all the canvases of the artist, on which women meet. They lived happily until Camille died, who died of tuberculosis at the age of 32.

Today, world-famous galleries consider it a great success to get Claude Monet's paintings in her collections. Photos of his works and their reproductions are decorated with many living rooms in rich houses. At auctions, paintings of his brush cost tens of millions of dollars. In Russia, the original paintings of Monet can be seen in the Hermitage and the Pushkin Museum. A. S. Pushkin.