To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face. Claude MonetĬolor is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even. One is too taken up with all that one sees and hears in Paris, however strong one is, and what I do here will at least have the merit of being unlike anyone else, at least I believe so, because it will simply be the expression of what I, and only I have felt. It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers. My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. He was buried at the Giverny church cemetery, Haute-Normandie, France. The artist died of lung cancer on the 5th of December, 1926 in Giverny, France at the age of 86. He married his second wife Alice Raingo Hoschedé in 1892 and she died in 1911. Monet married Camille-Léonie Doncieux in 1870 and they had two children together: Jean and Michel. His mother was Louise Justine Aubrée and his father Claude Adolphe Monet was a wholesale merchant. Mini biography: Born Oscar-Claude Monet on the 14th of November, 1840 in Paris, France. Famous Claude Monet paintings include “Impression, Sunrise”, “Water Lilies”, “La Promenade”, “Garden at Sainte-Adresse”, “La Grenouillére”, “Woman with a Parasol”, “Poplars at the River Epte”, “Rouen Cathedral at Sunset”, and “Camille Monet on a Garden Bench”. He is best known for being the father of the Impressionist art movement in France where he painted nature as he saw it. Claude Monet was a famous French painter.
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