How Did Monet Change The World

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“People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it’s simply necessary to love.” ---Monet. Actually, Monet did change the way people think and feel about the painting. He is one of the most famous artists in the word, and his contribution has been huge in the modern art history. And Monet’s experience also can give us the power to try our best to fight with the difficulty we faced.

Monet, Claude was born on Nov. 14, 1840 in Paris. When he was five years old, he moved out of Paris, with his family to live in Le Havre. His father Kuludo Adolov Monet is a businessman. He had a shop in northern France. Same with many parents’ idea, Monet’s father wanted him to inherit the grocery store, but Monet’s dream was to become an artist. He thought the school was liked a jail. He spent more time on playing outside instead of listening classes. Therefore, Monet had a very low score at school. His only hobby is painting. He often draws cartoons in a notebook. Over a long period, Monet learned many painting skills. However, his parents didn’t concur with this. With the gift he got when he was born and his practices, a few years later, his comics began to exhibition
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Monet faced many difficulties on his way to successes. Monet’s wife dead in 1879, just left his two sons and him. It is really a difficult thing for him to force both on his children and his painting. Nevertheless, he used his strong-willed passed this off. As everyone knows, eyes are the most important things for an artist. Monet’s eyesight began to fail, but he continued to paint, also painted his famous painting, The Water Lily. Although no one knows how to appreciate his painting in the first 60 years of his life, he kept working on his painting, never give up. He uses his own experience told people what should they do in adversity, they should not give up when they faced the difficulty, they should keep working and try hard to be

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