Who was Claude Monet?
Q: Who was Claude Monet?
A: Claude Monet was a French impressionist artist. He is most famous for his painting Water Lilies, which he repeated many times in various conditions.
Q: Where was Monet born?
A: Monet was born in Paris, France.
Q: What did his father want him to do?
A: His father wanted him to help run the family's grocery business. However, Monet wanted to be an artist.
Q: Who taught him how to use oil paints?
A: The painter Eugène Boudin taught him how to use oil paints and encouraged him to paint out of doors.
Q: How long did he serve in the French Army?
A: He served two years from 1860-1862 in the French Army in Algeria before becoming ill and leaving the army to study art at university.
Q: Who helped take care of his children after his wife died?
A: Alice Hoschedé decided to help Monet by taking care of his children as well as her own after Camille Doncieux (Monet's wife) died of tuberculosis in 1879.
Q: What kind of brush strokes did he use when painting?
A:He used broad brush strokes when building up his pictures, and painted quite quickly so that he could capture the light he saw into his paintings
