Why did monet paint like a child is art something one is born with?

Question

If monet had been alive today would he had been a cab driver
or in the same level as the people below

Christopher Walken
Tony Hancock
John Lennon

Answer 1

Most accomplished artists who ended up doing abstract work started out going through all the normal stages of learning the craft of painting. Artists like Monet, Picasso and even Jackson Pollock could paint highly realistic paintings. They chose to head off into more abstract forms because, for whatever reasons, they wanted to.

As to Monet, the child-like cutouts and paintings he did came much later in his life as his eyesight was failing. As his eyesight was failing his art became less focused, less exact and detailed.

As to his fame, he was quite well known world-wide well before his death. Both he and Picasso had made names for themselves as leaders in the abstract movements.

Answer 2

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

We don't start speaking English the moment we are born: it is a language to be learnt, and it is the same with the visual language of art.

Artists don't paint like Monet now because the art world changes. If Monet was alive now and he intended to be an artist, he probably wouldn't produce artworks anything like what we know as Monet paintings.
In the unlikely event that he produced the same work now, it wouldn't be valued in the same way because times have changed, and so have the values of the art world. The real Monet helped to change these values, so if he wasn't alive then but he was now, the art world wouldn't be the same as it is now.

By the way, I think Doctor Watson's answer confused Monet with Matisse, who was the one who did collages in his later years. Also, Monet and Picasso were not 'abstract' artists.

Answer 3

I think that when Monet was alive he was not consdered a star. It is only after his death that he became famous.