1. Claude Monet
A Famous French Artist

2. “I can only draw what I see”
- Claude Monet

3. Childhood And Early Works
Was born on 14 November 1840
1851: entered Le Havre school of the arts
1856: met fellow artist Eugène Boudin

4. Childhood And Early Works

5. First Impressionist Paintings
late 1860s: rejection from the conservative Académie des Beaux-Arts
1873: Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers
1874:  their first exhibition
Portrait of Claude Monet
(1867)

6. First Impressionist Paintings
Impression, Sunrise (1872), depicting a Le Havre port landscape.
the painting that gave its name to the style of “impressionism”

7. Later Impressionism 1876: Camille Monet became ill
Monet made a study in oils of his dead wife
After her death, Monet began to create some of his best paintings of the 19th century. 

8. Later Impressionism
Study of a Figure Outdoors: Woman with a Parasol, facing left, 1886
his second wife's daughter Suzanne Monet with a parasol in a meadow at Giverny

9. Later Impressionism
Rouen Cathedral at sunset, 1893
The paintings in the series each capture the facade of the Rouen Cathedral at different times of the day and year

10. Later Impressionism Water Lilies (or Nymphéas), c. 1915
Water Lilies  is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings

11. Last Years
After the death of his second wife Monet began to develop the first signs of cataracts
The surgeries had an effect on the colours he perceived
Monet died of lung cancer on 5 December 1926

12. Water-Lily Pond and Weeping Willow
Last Years
House Among the Roses
( )
Water-Lily Pond and Weeping Willow
(1916–1919)
Weeping Willow
(1918–1919)

13. Legacy
Monet's extraordinarily long life and large artistic output befit the enormity of his contemporary popularity. Impressionism, for which he is a pillar, continues to be one of the most popular artistic movement.

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