Claude Monet Born in Paris France 1840 1926

Claude Monet Born in Paris, France (1840 -1926)

Childhood S Dad owned a grocery store & wanted Monet to work in it S Lived by the sea and met many interesting people who came in on shipping boats S Lived with his aunt, a painter, when his mother died S Loved art & wanted to paint what he saw

Monet not a good student S Good sense of humor S Did not listen in school S Made funny caricatures that friends paid $$ for S “Caricature of a Man with a Large Nose” at the Art Institute of Chicago

Impressionism S Small, thin strokes S Importance of light and ordinary objects S Lots of movement in paintings S Monet loved the outdoors & water S “Impression, Sunrise” painting developed term

Monet’s Favorite Subjects S Boats S Oceans S Ponds S Lakes S Outdoor scenes S Monet thought painting inside was stuffy

Studied art in Paris S Monet met other artists like Renoir and they shared his love for painting outdoors S Impressionist painters had no money, just painted all day long S So poor, they ate beans for 2 months straight

Floating studio S Edoard Manet painted Monet painting in his boat S Monet fixed a boat, kept his supplies in it and floated down the river S Painted what he saw as he traveled

Monet wanted paintings to be well known S Tried to get his paintings to show at the Salon in Paris S Many were not picked S Painted “Women in the Garden” which is same woman in 4 different poses S Camille was his favorite model S Monet and Camille fell in love and married

Reflection & light S Monet wanted to paint scenes of everyday life, but not many people liked the art S Kept on painting anyway and showed colors, shadows and light as real as possible S Loved the way color reflect in light

Close your eyes S Imagine anytime you were at a lake, ocean, river S What does the skylook like? S What did the water look like? S Colors and shades?

Up close vs. Step back

Painted same picture at different times of the day to show change

Monet’s last paintings were from a water garden

The Art Institute of Chicago

Project S Get a small square of a Monet S You get to be Monet and finish the drawing S Bright, soft colors and blending with water colors S Think of movement and shadows when painting