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Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)
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EDUCATION AND JOBS
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Sometimes people who are very smart or talented don't finish school. Claude Monet was one of them. When he was growing up in La Havre and attending grade school there he was not a very good student. He didn't like discipline, and he preferred drawing than studying. When he was 19 years old he decided to skip final examination and leave for Paris.
In Paris he joined Suisse Academy in 1859 and started to study art. The academy was more relaxed than other conservative schools in France, and Claude enjoyed to be in there. However in 1861 he had to go to the army and serve in Algeria, Africa. Algeria was a French colony at that time, and France needed some soldiers there to keep things in order. Claude suppoused to serve for 7 years, but he got sick in 1862, and with his aunt's help he was able to return to his father's home in La Havre. When he got better, still in 1862, he returned to Paris, and this time he became a student in the studio of Charles Gleyre. He stayed there until 1864, but he didn't like Gleyre's traditional understanding of art, and at that time he was already practicing the new way of painting later called impressionism.
In 1864 the studio has been closed, and Monet never graduated and never got any certification from Gleyre.
Through his life Claude Monet was doing only one kind of work: drawing and painting. He was very talented and very good at it. When he was a boy in school in La Havre he already was drawing all kinds of pictures, including very good caricatures of his teachers, friends, and other people. Sometimes he was selling these pictures, and he was paid for drawing them. As he got older he started to paint. For many years his paintings were not understood and liked much, and Monet had a hard time making money and supporting his family this way. As the time passed his paintings became popular and finally started selling well. By the year 1890 Monet was a great and happy artist providing a wealthy living for his family.
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Regatta at Argenteuil
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