2;Claude monet "the water lillies"

Claude Monet was born on November 14, 1840, in Paris, France. He enrolled in the Academie Suisse. After an art exhibition in 1874, a critic insultingly dubbed Monet's painting style "Impression," since it 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 1883 Monet moved from the north-west of Paris to Giverny where he lived until his death. Next to his property was a small pond which he acquired in 1893, where he created a water garden with an arched bridge in the Japanese style. In 1900 he exhibited a series of ten canvases of the pond, showing a single subject in differing light conditions. He worked on similar series representing poplars, haystacks and the façade of Rouen Cathedral during the same period.As you can see compered to the rest of the blog this painting doesn't really fitt i haven't displayed a impressionist or an artist who worked during this period and the why is simple really i could go on and on about him and his influence's but i rather talk about why i like and consider this artist bonded to my childhood .
I first saw Monet's the lily pads in class when i was eight years old our teacher probably bored with dealing with a  class of disillusioned children showed us a picture in a old art index book of one of Monet's Lillie pad series and told us to basically paint it and she would send the best into the urdd art competition so we got cracking and the funny thing is i think the loose style of a eight year old really complemented Monet's style and i won the competition ,whoop whoop. and ever since then like a smell that reminds you of you re child hood monets lillie pads remind me of a children laughing the smell of powder paint and the masterpiece the eight year old me made . I respect and envy his ability then to rebel against the norm and draw what he saw what he liked in his own style hes an inspiration even when his sight failed him he saw what others didn't .