Monet was born in Paris but didn’t grow up there. When he was still a little boy he started to show a lot of artistic talent, which his family encouraged.

He served in the military and then later took painting lessons. Those lessons coupled with his natural talent and abilities, allowed him to produce works such as Water Lillies, Iris, Nympheas, and Impression – Sunrise, among many others.

One of the most notable things that Monet did was paint the same subject, over and over, under different lighting. The light changed more quickly than he could paint, so he worked with several canvases set up at once, moving from one to another each day as the sun moved across the sky. Eventually Monet’s health started to decline and it was more difficult for him to paint but he continued right up until the year that he died from lung cancer. He was eighty-three.

Iris
Water Lillies
Impression – Sunrise
Nympheas