Claude Monet was a famous French painter whose work gave name to the Impressionism art movement, which aimed to capture light and natural forms. One of the most famous painters in art history and a leading figure in the Impressionist movement, whose works can be seen in museums around the world, Oscar Claude Monet (some sources say Claude Oscar) was born on 14 November 1840 in Paris, France. Monet's father, Adolphe, worked in the family shipping business, while his mother, Louise, looked after the family. A trained singer, Louise loved poetry and was a popular hostess. In 1845, at the age of 5, Monet moved with his family to Le Havre, a port city in Normandy. He grew up there with his older brother. In 1912, he developed a cataract in his right eye. In the art world, Monet was out of step with the avant-garde. The Impressionists were to some extent supplanted by the Cubist movement, led by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Claude Monet was born on November 14, 1840 in Paris, France. He enrolled at the Swiss Academy. After an art exhibition in 1874, a critic insultingly dubbed Monet's painting style "Impression", because he was more concerned with form and light than realism, and the term stuck. Monet struggled with depression, poverty and illness throughout his life. He died in 1926. In his first painting, Water Lilly Pond, he used very light colors which were mostly primary colors. Claude Monet can be described as painterly because of his use of light brushstrokes in his paintings. I also noticed that most of his paintings used primary colors and never used lines to represent shapes. He never used organic shapes in his paintings. Most of them were regular geometric shapes. Monet's early work is indebted to the realists' interest in depicting contemporary subjects, without idealization, and in painting outdoors in order to capture the ephemeral qualities of