Cartoons
The relationship of Oscar (as then he was called in the family) with my dad were never too good because of his indiscipline and mediocre success in school. "The school has always seemed to me a prison, and I could not convince myself that it's all right to sit here, the more four hours a day, while the sun was calling me outside, the sea was calm and it was such a joy to be outdoors, to run over rocks and splash in water," Monet wrote in a brief autobiography, published in 1900, Arithmetic and spelling the young man preferred to "life is wrong, but healthy" and in the classroom drew garlands in the margins of books, notebooks were decorated with fantastic ornaments and on top of painted faces and portraits of teachers and other residents of the city, distorting their features in a most irreverent manner. "I soon became a great master in this. At fifteen I was known all Le Havre as a caricaturist". His cartoons, talking about the naturalness and spontaneity of his artistic talent, became so famous that friends and comrades turned to him with orders.
Seeing this unexpected success, he even began to sell cartoons, causing a scandal in the family: "in one month the number of my patrons has doubled. I could ask for twenty francs, and the orders did not decrease. If I continued, today would have been a billionaire". But Monet did not become a millionaire, and his apparent financial pragmatism has never been the characteristic of his nature. This period is rather an indication of his early natural inclination to drawing and the desire to follow that path, becoming partially independent economically. Indeed, the money saved from the sale of caricatures, enabled him soon to take his first trip to Paris. During his studies in 1856 and 1858 he was in the city College of Le Havre, where drawing was taught by a former pupil of David, Francois Oscar, Monet successfully exhibited her ironic caricature in the store window mouldings and paint the Gravel, on the Rue de Paris. There was exhibited a few marine one local artist, over fifteen years Monet - eugène Boudin (1824 - 1898), whom Corot called the "king of heaven" for its naturalistic precision in the transmission of the light of heaven through the atmosphere and its smooth chromatic glare.
Young Monet, however, found unbearable realism and picturesque style of this artist: "Small and sincere composition Boudin, with its real figures, his boat, equipped as expected, his heavens and his water to the extent accurate, drawn or written, as they are in nature, - all this has nothing in art, and their accuracy amazed me, because it seemed more than suspicious. Therefore, his paintings evoked in me a strong hostility, and even without knowing the man, I hated him".
But once the two artists were together in the back room of their common flax framers. Boudin immediately congratulated the young Oscar Claude, advising him to engage seriously in the landscape: "They are so beautiful - the sea, the sky, animals, people and trees, such as nature, with their characters, as his true mode of existence in the light, in the air, just the way they are."
After this meeting, Monet gradually began to change opinion about the kind Budine, though, and kept finding excuses to refuse his invitations together to paint outdoors.
He later recalled: "the summer Came, I was relatively free, and could not find a sufficiently compelling reason; tired of resisting, I finally gave in, and Boudin with inexhaustible kindness undertook my education. My eyes finally opened, I truly understood the nature and at the same time learned to love her."
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