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Claude Monet:
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Making an Impression
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Claude Monet was a French painter Some of Monet’s early sketches
born in 1840. He grew up along the impressed painter Eugène Boudin.
northern coast of France. As a child, He convinced the young artist to
he had a love for ships and liked to try landscape painting. At the time,
draw them. most artists painted outdoor scenes

while in their studios. They worked
from memory. Boudin was a plein
air painter. Plein air means “open This
air.” Boudin worked outdoors, painting
Painting outdoors idea in art. His painting
directly observing what he from Monet’s
helped Monet notice Impression, Sunrise
painted. haystack series
Claude Monet how colors and was done in was of a French harbor

in 1898. shadows changed 1891. on a hazy morning.
throughout the day. This But Monet did not paint
25 was also true from season the scene exactly as it

Number of paintings in to season. He would paint the looked. Rather, he painted his
same subject over and over again to
Monet’s haystack series impression, or idea, of it. The ships
show these changes. His haystack in the background are simply gray.
• In his teens, Monet drew series is one example. His many The waves in the water are shown
caricatures of his friends haystack paintings all look different. with thick brushstrokes. The sun is a
and teachers. They were painted at different times
• His water lily paintings bright orange ball. This new style of
were of the pond in his of the day and the year. painting was called impressionism.
garden. Before Monet’s time, most paintings Monet died in 1926. He is best
• Camille Pissarro, Paul were realistic. Artists wanted their known for his impressionist
Cézanne, and Edgar
Degas are other famous work to imitate real life. But in 1874, paintings of water lilies.
10 impressionist painters. Monet helped bring about a new 11
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