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//__** For art we are doing art from Monet, I have chosen to copy one of my favorite pictures and it is...... **__//



Claude Monet

 * 1) His full name is Claude Oscar Monet.
 * 2) He was born on November 14, 1840.
 * 3) He was born in Paris.
 * 4) He was born on the 5th floor of Rue Laffitte.
 * 5) He was a famous French artist known for impressionism.
 * 6) He made the term “Impressionist” by painting an impressionist picture called Impression, Sunrise.
 * 7) His mother died when he was 17.
 * 8) His father died when he was 31.
 * 9) His first son, Jean Monet, was born in 1867.
 * 10) He tried to kill himself in 1868, but failed at that.
 * 11) He married Camille Doncieux in 1870.
 * 12) His second son, Michel Monet was born in 1878; one year before his mother died.
 * 13) He married Alice Hoschedé in 1892.
 * 14) He started to have vision problems in 1907.
 * 15) Alice (his wife) died in 1911.
 * 16) Jean (his son) died in 1914.
 * 17) In 1923, Monet needed eye surgery because he was nearly blind.
 * 18) From 1916 – 1926 he worked on 12 large canvases called __The Water Lilies__.
 * 19) He had lung cancer in 1926, but was still painting.
 * 20) He died on December 5th, and was buried at Giverny.