Paint Like Monet

If Monet had been living today, would it had been a taxi driver
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The most accomplished artists who have come to make abstract work started going through all the normal stages of learning the art of painting. Artists like Monet, Picasso and Jackson Pollock could even paint pictures very realistic. They chose to deal with more abstract forms, because for some reason they wanted.

As for Monet, the cutouts and paintings of children as it did not come until much later in his life as his sight deteriorated. As his eyesight was failing his art has become less concentrated, less precise and detailed.

As for his fame, he was quite well known around the world, long before his death. He and Picasso had made a name for themselves as leaders in the abstract movements.

I think when Monet was alive, he was not consdered a star. Only after his death he became famous.

Monet did not paint like a child, and art is not something one is born with.

We did not start speaking English the moment we are born: a language to learn, and it's the same with the visual language of art.

Artists do not paint like Monet now because the world is changing art. If Monet was alive and that he intended to be an artist, he probably would not produce works of art as something that we know that Monet's paintings.
In the unlikely event it produced the same work today would not be assessed in the same way, because times have changed, and therefore the values of the art world. The real Monet helped to change these values, so if he was not alive then, but it was now the art world would not be the same as it is today.

By the way, I think the answer of Dr. Watson confuse Monet with Matisse, who was the one who made collages in his later years. In addition, Monet and Picasso were not "abstract" artists.