Diana's+Biography

Alfred Sisley was born in Paris (30 October 1839) to affulent english parents.
Sisley's father worked in the silk buissness.His mother ,Felicia Sell, worked as acultivated music connosseur. When 18, Sisley was sent to London for career in buissness but returned to paris four years later. He then started to paint with Frederic Bazille,Claude Monet and Pierre Auguste Renoir. They alltogether would paint landscape ( on location ) and they would get very few chances to sell their work.Unfortunely they would always get rejected. Sisley's remainder of his life lived in poverty. Alfred Sisley was an impresinist.

Untill 1880 he lived and worked in the countryside west of paris. In 1866,Sisley began a relationship with Eugenie Lescouezec.(Better known as Marie Lescouezec.) Sisley finally married Lescouezec in 1897. The couple produced two children before their marriage, son Pierre (1867) and daughter Jeanne (1891). Sisley named his son after one of his major influnces,Pierre Auguste Renoir. His other influnes were also Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.

Sisley's work was usally overdrowend by other landscape artists like Monet. His paintings only rose significntly after his death in January 29th in 1899. His most known paintings are Street in Moret and Sand Heaps both owned and shown at the Art Institute of Chicago.

I chose to learn about Alfred Sisley because his work is stunning and you can see every detail. Alfred sisley inspired me to bring some texture into my work and to be not scared to use thick lots of paint.


 * //Thanks Diana. You've done an excellent job here.// //I think this is a Level 4 Biography// (Have a look at the matrix on the biography page)

//In terms of next steps for writing a biography, I think you need to consider the following ://

Purpose:** You've done a thorough job of the background. Your next step is to explain to us (the reader) why he so important in the art history world. I'm also impressed by the listing of influences (although I think you missed "why" he decided to be a painter) and use of the language of art (impressionist for example). Now you need to assume that the reader will not know what this means and spell it out for us.
 * Text Organisation:** This is good. You've sequenced and attempted a conclusion.
 * Language Features**: Pretty good here, just a couple of surface features issues to look at, capitals (proper nouns!!!!) and fullstops etc.