My favourite artist

Cloud Monet is one of my favourite artists. He was born in 1840. His father was a merchant, he wanted Monet to go into the family grocery, but Monet wanted to be an artist. From his teachers we can see he also somewhat influenced by neoclassical style. JACQUES- FRANCOIS OCHARD is the first art teacher of him at his high school, and OCHARD had been a student of JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID. In 1862, Monet became a student of CHARLES GLEYRE in Paris where he met PIERRRE-AUGUSTE RENIOR, FREDERIC BAZILLE and ALFRED SISLEY, they shared new approaches to art, painting the effects of light with broken color and rapid brushstrokes, in what later came to be known as IMPRESSIONISM. After that he studied the works of JOHN CONSTABLE and JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TUMER, both of whose landscapes would serve to inspire Monet's innovations in the study of color. After his wife CAMILLE left, he began in earnest to create some of his best paintings.