Claude Monet

Something that interests me is Claude Monet and his artwork. I love art and Claude Monet's paintings are just so beautiful that they inspire me. In fact, I did a french project on him last year. I don't really have a favorite piece of artwork by Claude Monet because he would paint a scene at one time of the day and then would go back at several different times of the day and paint the scene over again so he would end up with a series of paintings of the same scene but were all still different. The reason for that is because at each time of the day, the light would hit the scene differently so the colors would also differ. Claude Monet liked capturing the different effects of light in his paintings like "water lilies", where the light reflected off the water in the pond.


Claude Monet's life might surprise you, it wasn't always easy for him. He was originally born in Paris but a few years later moved to Le Havre in Normandy and then went to the Le Havre secondary school of arts. As a kid, he was famous for drawing caricatures of his teachers made a small business of it during school. After that, he had many art tutors until he joined the army in 1861 and sent him to Algiers. His mom died when he was 16 so he went to live with his aunt. In 1868 Claude Monet attempted suicide by throwing himself into the Siene. Two years later he got married to Camille Doncieux and two years after that he painted "Impression", a sunrise. In 1878 Claude Monet's second child was born and a year later his wife died. After that, Monet moved in with his friend and his friend's wife Alice who helped raise Monet's children. Then Monet's friend died so Alice and Monet got married in 1892. But in 1911 Alice died and in 1914 Monet's first son died. Then in 1923 Claude Monet had two surgeries for cataracts and in 1926 he died of lung cancer.


Even though Claude Monet had a rough life, he left behind genius paintings like "Mornings on the Siene" and "Weeping Willows".








The thing that I am most excited about for this year is:


I am most excited about the dances, I can't wait to see if they are as fun as they seem in movies.





The thing that I am least excited about for this year is:


I am least excited about the homework load that the teachers give us.