{"id":2185,"date":"2016-11-09T13:45:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T18:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aesu.com\/?p=2185"},"modified":"2016-11-09T13:45:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T18:45:59","slug":"famous-artist-spotlight-claude-oscar-monet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobeckmedia.com\/aesu\/famous-artist-spotlight-claude-oscar-monet\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Artist spotlight \u2013 Claude Oscar Monet"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2186\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2186\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2186 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bobeckmedia.com\/aesu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bigstock-152903507-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"bigstock--152903507\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rue Claude Monet Giverny, France<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Monday, November 14 we\u2019ll celebrate <a href=\"https:\/\/bobeckmedia.com\/aesu\/\">Claude Monet\u2019s<\/a> 176<sup>th<\/sup> birthday. The founder of French impressionist painting, Monet was born in 1840 on the fifth floor of rue Laffitte, in the ninth arrondissement of Paris. When Monet was 5 years old, the family moved to <a href=\"http:\/\/res.aesu.com\/stw\/stwdirectory.aspx?theme=aesu&amp;groupid=aesu-main\">the Normandy<\/a> coast, where his father took over the management of the grocery business. It was during his childhood that he spent long days along the beaches and <a href=\"https:\/\/bobeckmedia.com\/aesu\/\">fell in love<\/a> with the sea.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Early Inspiration <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>At 15, Monet sold pencil sketches of ships and boats to the locals for 10 to 20 francs. His aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre, was an amateur painter and at her suggestion, Claude went to study drawing with a local artist. It was in 1856 that he met fellow artist\u00a0Eugene Boudin who became his mentor and taught him to use oil paints.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Military Service and Paris <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>At the age of 21, Monet was drafted into the First Regiment of African Light Cavalry in Algeria for a seven-year period of military service.\u00a0 In a\u00a0<em>Le Temps<\/em>\u00a0interview of 1900, he commented that the light and vivid colors of North Africa &#8220;contained the germ of my future researches\u201d.\u00a0 After about a year of service, he briefly contracted typhoid fever and went absent without leave. His aunt intervened to get him out of the army if he agreed to complete a course at an art school.<\/p>\n<p>He returned to Paris once more to become a student of Charles Gleyre where he learned to paint to effects of light with broken color and rapid brushstrokes \u2013 this later became known as Impressionism.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Impressionism and Art<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The name of the style derives from Monet\u2019s famous depiction of a shipyard at sunrise entitled, <em>Impression, Soleil Levent<\/em> (Impression, Sunrise). The term \u201cImpressionism\u201d was originally a satirical word applied to the art form published by a critic in the Parisian newspaper. The movement faced harsh opposition from the conventional art community in France. The early impressionists were looked down upon because they were thought to be violating the rules of academic painting.<\/p>\n<h1><strong>Visit the Marmottan Monet Museum in Paris<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Here you\u2019ll find the largest Monet collection in the world, from Impression, Sunrise to Giverny&#8217;s Water Lilies. This collection, presented in a room specially built for this purpose, gives the public the unique opportunity to admire all the significant stages of the master painter&#8217;s career and follow the evolution of his technique: from his youth caricatures of Le Havre\u2019s personalities or Parisian critics, to the paintings inspired by his Giverny garden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/res.aesu.com\/stw\/stwdirectory.aspx?theme=aesu&amp;groupid=aesu-main\"><strong>AESU\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>offers unique, thrilling travel programs for college students and young professionals at affordable rates. Each trip is action-packed and informal\u2014designed just for people your own age. We are also able to design custom tours just for your group.<\/p>\n<p>Experience an exhilarating French adventure on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/res.aesu.com\/stw\/STWProduct.aspx?Theme=AESU&amp;ProductCode=COS-AESU\">Cosmopolitan<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/res.aesu.com\/stw\/STWProduct.aspx?Theme=AESU&amp;ProductCode=EXP-AESU\">Explorer<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/res.aesu.com\/stw\/STWProduct.aspx?Theme=AESU&amp;ProductCode=CON-AESU\">Continental<\/a>\u00a0tours. It\u2019s never too late to get a taste of a multitude of exciting cultures!<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions or want help booking your European adventure, please contact\u00a0<strong>AESU\u00a0<\/strong>by calling\u00a0<strong>800-638-7640<\/strong>, or fill out the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/aesu.com\/Contact_Us.aspx\">contact form<\/a>\u00a0found on our website!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, November 14 we\u2019ll celebrate Claude Monet\u2019s 176th birthday. The founder of French impressionist painting, Monet was born in 1840 on the fifth floor of rue Laffitte, in the ninth arrondissement of Paris. 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