Claude Monet (Art Profiles for Kids) (Art Profiles for Kids)

By Whiting, Jim

Publishers Summary:
In 1868, Claude Monet was desperate. Though he had been painting for a decade, he was living in poverty. He had to support his girlfriend and infant son on his meager earnings. His relatives refused to help him out, so he begged for money from his friends, telling them that his situation seemed hopeless. Yet just over two decades later, with brisk sales through an art dealer, Monet had become wealthy and famous. People came from all over Europe, and even a few from the United States, to visit him. He lived in comfort for the rest of his life. Monet is best known as an Impressionist painter. Impressionism was very different from the art that preceded it. It took years before people accepted it, but today exhibits that feature the works of Monet and other Impressionists are very popular.

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ISBN
978-1-58415-563-8
Publisher
Mitchell Lane Publishers


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Reviewed on December 1, 2007

Gr 4-7 Dialogue and quotes (all sourced in the back matter) and the stories that usher readers into the lives of these artists inject some life into otherwise dry texts. Michelangelo's mother, pregnant with him, fell off her horse en route to Caprese, his birthplace. Renoir's "The Bathers" sold at Sotheby's for almost $3.5 million in 1998, while in the 1870s, Claude Monet and other Impressionist painters were unable to get their work exhibited or accepted by the critics. The author Émile Zola created a ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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