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Claude Monet Biography for Kids
Bon jour! I am Claude Monet. This is the Claude Monet biography for kids.
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I am from the late 1800s and early 1900s in France.
There has been an interesting movement in art going on in France called the Impressionist Movement, and I am one of the main artists of Impressionism.
I was born in 1840 in Paris, France. I knew I wanted to be an artist from an early age, though my father wanted me to join the family business of grocery sales and supplying ships.
I was able to attend the school of the arts in Les Havre, where my family had moved.
I used to draw caricatures…
until I met a local artist, Eugene Boudin…
who became my mentor and encouraged me to try painting landscapes “en plein air”, or as you say, in the open air.
So I stopped drawing the caricatures and instead began to paint landscapes.
I like the natural world…
and I got tired of imitating the Old Masters.
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