Oscar claude monet biography for children

Oscar-Claude Monet ( 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant, exhibited in 1874.

He attempted to paint nature as he perceived it.

During his long career, he consistently practiced the philosophy of impressionism, expressing one's perceptions before nature. Among the best-known examples of his paintings are his series of haystacks (1890–91), paintings of the Rouen Cathedral (1894), and the paintings of water lilies in his garden in Giverny that occupied him continuously for the last 20 years of his life.

Early years

Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840.

He was the second son of Claude Adolphe Monet and Louise Justine Aubrée Monet, both of them second-generation Parisians.

Monet was raised in Le Havre, Normandy, and becam