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<strong>Claude</strong> Monet<br />
Impressionist<br />
Magician of Color<br />
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Oscar-<strong>Claude</strong> Monet was born in Paris in 1840.<br />
He lived with his parents and older brother in a<br />
small apartment near the Seine.<br />
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Although his family called him Oscar,<br />
he was to become famous as<br />
<strong>Claude</strong> Monet.<br />
His family did not have a lot of money.<br />
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They moved to the seaport town of<br />
Le Havre in Normandy<br />
to work in the family grocery business.<br />
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The grocery store sold supplies to sailors and shipping<br />
companies. Monet probably saw a lot of very interesting<br />
people coming into the store.<br />
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Monet loved the busy seaport and the outdoors.<br />
He liked to draw landscapes and the boats.<br />
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During school, he liked to draw caricatures,<br />
sometimes of his teachers.<br />
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When Monet was 17, his mother died.<br />
That same year he left school.<br />
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When Monet was 17, his mother died.<br />
That same year he left school.<br />
His aunt was a painter and looked after him,<br />
encouraging him to take drawing lessons.<br />
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Monet kept making his caricatures and put them on<br />
display in the local picture framer’s shop window.<br />
Passers by could buy them for a couple of francs.<br />
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Monet said later that he was filled with pride<br />
when he saw how people pressed their noses<br />
to the window to see his latest displays<br />
and argue how good the likenesses were.<br />
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The landscape artist Boudin also put his work<br />
in that shop window and noticed Monet’s.<br />
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The landscape artist Boudin also put his work<br />
in that shop window and noticed Monet’s.<br />
He encouraged Monet to start<br />
painting with oil paints.<br />
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The landscape artist Boudin also put his work<br />
in that shop window and noticed Monet’s.<br />
He encouraged Monet to start<br />
painting with oil paints.<br />
He also told him not to paint in a stuffy studio,<br />
but to go paint outdoors.<br />
The people in La Havre thought Boudin as a<br />
bit of a fool for painting that way.<br />
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Monet went to Paris to<br />
study art seriously.<br />
His aunt helped pay<br />
for it.<br />
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Monet went to Paris to<br />
study art seriously.<br />
His aunt helped pay<br />
for it.<br />
His father wanted him<br />
to have “proper”<br />
lessons.<br />
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Monet’s fellow students<br />
at art school reported<br />
that he always wore<br />
elegant clothes.<br />
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Monet’s fellow students<br />
at art school reported<br />
that he always wore<br />
elegant clothes.<br />
This was always the<br />
case, even when he had<br />
no money.<br />
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In 1861, he was<br />
drafted into the<br />
French army<br />
and left for Algeria,<br />
North Africa.<br />
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In 1861, he was<br />
drafted into the<br />
French army<br />
and left for Algeria,<br />
North Africa.<br />
After a year, he became<br />
ill and was sent home.<br />
His aunt took care of<br />
him.<br />
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Monet’s family worried that his painting was<br />
leading him nowhere.<br />
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Monet’s family worried that his painting was<br />
leading him nowhere.<br />
He agreed to become a<br />
“professional artist”<br />
and went back to Paris<br />
to work for a commercial artist.<br />
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Everyone in Paris in 1860 shared ideas in cafes.<br />
This is the famous Guerbois Cafe many of the<br />
famous painters frequented.<br />
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Monet made friends with<br />
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and<br />
Frederic Bazille.<br />
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Monet made friends with<br />
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and<br />
Frederic Bazille.<br />
He showed them how much fun it was to<br />
paint outdoors.<br />
Monet and his friends often painted together<br />
in the countryside.<br />
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They were into using<br />
quick brushstrokes,<br />
capturing<br />
and<br />
color and light,<br />
against the<br />
rules of depicting reality in art.<br />
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“Gradua!y my eyes were opened<br />
and I understood nature.”<br />
<strong>Claude</strong> Monet<br />
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Monet’s painting you just saw was selected to be shown<br />
in a Paris salon. The salon was like a big art gallery and<br />
lots of people went to view the paintings.<br />
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Monet and his<br />
painter friends<br />
traveled around the<br />
countryside<br />
to the nearby forests<br />
in Fontainebleau<br />
to paint.<br />
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“I am going into the country, which is<br />
so lovely now that I almost like it<br />
better in winter than in summer.”<br />
<strong>Claude</strong> Monet<br />
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The Bad News<br />
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The Bad News<br />
Monet’s father cut off his allowance because he<br />
was not studying at Paris’s official art school.<br />
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The Bad News<br />
Monet’s father cut off his allowance because he<br />
was not studying at Paris’s official art school.<br />
His success at the Salon had been brief,<br />
all of his other artwork was rejected.<br />
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The Bad News<br />
Monet’s father cut off his allowance because he<br />
was not studying at Paris’s official art school.<br />
His success at the Salon had been brief,<br />
all of his other artwork was rejected.<br />
Monet had also met a girl he loved,<br />
Camille Doncieux, an artist model, and his<br />
family objected to her.<br />
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Monet often paints Camille.<br />
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Monet and Camille<br />
have a son, Jean,<br />
and now he has two<br />
muses to paint.<br />
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Camille and Jean.<br />
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Monet and Camille were very poor.<br />
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Monet and Camille were very poor.<br />
At times, they could not afford to eat.<br />
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Monet and Camille were very poor.<br />
At times, they could not afford to eat.<br />
He regularly had to borrow money<br />
from friends and acquaintances.<br />
His painter friend, Auguste Renoir, lived nearby<br />
and provided the young family with food.<br />
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When Monet<br />
received a major<br />
commission<br />
from his dealer,<br />
his family was<br />
able to have a<br />
hearty lunch,<br />
like he painted<br />
here.<br />
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Monet married Camille<br />
against his father’s wishes.<br />
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Monet married Camille<br />
against his father’s wishes.<br />
War broke out between France and Prussia and<br />
Monet left his wife and child for London to<br />
avoid having to join the army and fight.<br />
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London in 1870 was one of the world’s largest and<br />
busiest cities. It had the first underground train and<br />
electric lamps in the streets.<br />
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Meanwhile, back in Paris.....<br />
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Meanwhile, back in Paris.....<br />
France lost the war while Paris was under siege.<br />
Then a civil war broke out against the new<br />
French republic.<br />
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Meanwhile, back in Paris.....<br />
France lost the war while Paris was under siege.<br />
Then a civil war broke out against the new<br />
French republic.<br />
Paris was devastated and rubble filled the streets.<br />
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With all the hunger, disease, and damage in Paris,<br />
art was not that important.<br />
People who were buying art now wanted the<br />
traditional style, not the new ways of painting<br />
like Monet and his friends.<br />
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Monet and his family move to Argenteuil,<br />
a town on the Seine River in France.<br />
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Monet and his family move to Argenteuil,<br />
a town on the Seine River in France.<br />
Monet concentrated on painting boats<br />
and the<br />
effects of light<br />
on the water.<br />
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Monet made a floating studio by adding a roof<br />
to a boat. He would drift down the river or row<br />
until he found something he wanted to paint.<br />
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Monet and his artist friends decided to have<br />
their own independent art exhibit.<br />
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Monet and his artist friends decided to have<br />
their own independent art exhibit.<br />
Most people came to laugh.<br />
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Monet exhibited this painting called<br />
“Impression, Sunrise” and then everyone<br />
started referring to his work as “Impressionist.”<br />
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In Monet’s time, railroads were changing<br />
society. Monet was fascinated by the Gare<br />
Saint-Lazare and made many paintings of it.<br />
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Monet’s second son, Michel, was born and the<br />
family had to move to a smaller house.<br />
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Monet’s second son, Michel, was born and the<br />
family had to move to a smaller house.<br />
In fact, they rented a small house with a friends<br />
Ernest and Alice Hoschede and their six<br />
children.<br />
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Monet’s second son, Michel, was born and the<br />
family had to move to a smaller house.<br />
In fact, they rented a small house with a friends<br />
Ernest and Alice Hoschede and their six<br />
children.<br />
Camille became ill and died.<br />
Monet had stopped painting to take care of her<br />
while she was ill.<br />
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Monet decides to marry Alice since her<br />
husband had died. They move to the French<br />
countryside with the 8 children.<br />
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Monet at Argenteuil.<br />
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A painting of Monet painting near his house.<br />
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At 40, Monet’s art<br />
finally receives<br />
recognition.<br />
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At 40, Monet’s art<br />
finally receives<br />
recognition.<br />
This is his self<br />
portrait.<br />
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He and his family move further down the Seine<br />
to rent a house in Giverny.<br />
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Monet likes to paint the wheatstacks that the<br />
farmers make after the harvest to store grain<br />
for the winter.<br />
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Monet likes to paint the wheatstacks that the<br />
farmers make after the harvest to store grain<br />
for the winter.<br />
Sometimes the colors change before he finishes<br />
a canvas. So he works a few minutes on each<br />
canvas in his series of the same subject.<br />
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The wheatstacks.<br />
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Monet saw the wheatstacks<br />
like they were inside<br />
an “envelope” of light and air.<br />
He painted over 25 paintings<br />
showing the constant change.<br />
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Monet painted many seaside scenes.<br />
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Monet painted many seaside scenes.<br />
On the Atlantic coast he was bothered by wind<br />
and freezing temperatures. He fastened his<br />
easel to the ground with ropes and pegs so it<br />
would not fall over.<br />
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Once when he was painting by the water’s edge,<br />
he was so engrossed in his work that he did not<br />
see the huge wave which hurled him against the<br />
cliffs and carried his items out to sea.<br />
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Once when he was painting by the water’s edge,<br />
he was so engrossed in his work that he did not<br />
see the huge wave which hurled him against the<br />
cliffs and carried his items out to sea.<br />
Monet came close to drowning and when he<br />
finally got out of the water, his beard and jacket<br />
were covered in paint from his palette and his<br />
painting destroyed.<br />
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The sea.<br />
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Paris was busy preparing for the Exposition Universal<br />
and a great deal of building was going on.<br />
What famous landmark is this being built?<br />
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Over 25 million visitors to the Exposition<br />
witnessed the first marvels of electricity.<br />
They also got to see Monet’s works in the art<br />
section along with other Impressionists.<br />
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Monet’s work is sought after in France and<br />
gaining popularity in America.<br />
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Monet’s work is sought after in France and<br />
gaining popularity in America.<br />
The Monet family finally has the means to buy<br />
a house and enjoy life.<br />
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Monet’s work is sought after in France and<br />
gaining popularity in America.<br />
The Monet family finally has the means to buy<br />
a house and enjoy life.<br />
It was a happy time at Giverny.<br />
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Giverny had beautiful gardens because Monet<br />
loved flowers. Flowers gave bright color to his<br />
paintings. His greatest love was for roses.<br />
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Giverny had beautiful gardens because Monet<br />
loved flowers. Flowers gave bright color to his<br />
paintings. His greatest love was for roses.<br />
Monet liked to paint Alice’s daughters in the<br />
gardens and river.<br />
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Giverny gardens.<br />
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Monet traveled along the Atlantic coast and to<br />
the Mediterranean, to Norway, Spain, London<br />
and Venice. Alice often accompanied him.<br />
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Monet and Alice in a famous piazza.<br />
Where is this?<br />
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VENICE<br />
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LONDON<br />
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SPAIN<br />
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HOLLAND<br />
NORWAY<br />
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Monet painted the church in a French city of<br />
Rouen from a clothing shop opposite it.<br />
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Monet painted the church in a French city of<br />
Rouen from a clothing shop opposite it.<br />
As usual, he did a series to capture the<br />
changing light.<br />
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The cathedral.<br />
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Soon after their return from Venice, Alice fell<br />
ill and died. Three years later his son Jean died.<br />
Some of his artist friends were also dead and<br />
his eyesight was failing.<br />
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Soon after their return from Venice, Alice fell<br />
ill and died. Three years later his son Jean died.<br />
Some of his artist friends were also dead and<br />
his eyesight was failing.<br />
In addition, World War II had begun.<br />
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Soon after their return from Venice, Alice fell<br />
ill and died. Three years later his son Jean died.<br />
Some of his artist friends were also dead and<br />
his eyesight was failing.<br />
In addition, World War II had begun.<br />
Monet rarely left Giverny.<br />
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Monet built a water garden for Giverny.<br />
The neighboring farmers were concerned when<br />
Monet was laying out his lily pond.<br />
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Monet built a water garden for Giverny.<br />
The neighboring farmers were concerned when<br />
Monet was laying out his lily pond.<br />
They thought the plants in the pond might<br />
poison their animals who might drink from the<br />
stream that flowed through it. Their wives<br />
thought the water would’t be good for washing<br />
their laundry.<br />
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Monet built a water garden for Giverny.<br />
The neighboring farmers were concerned when<br />
Monet was laying out his lily pond.<br />
They thought the plants in the pond might<br />
poison their animals who might drink from the<br />
stream that flowed through it. Their wives<br />
thought the water would’t be good for washing<br />
their laundry.<br />
None of the farmer’s fears came true.<br />
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The water lilies.<br />
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“...then suddenly it dawned<br />
on me how wonderful my<br />
pond was, and I reached<br />
for my palette.”<br />
<strong>Claude</strong> Monet<br />
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Monet had waterproof equipment he left out in the<br />
garden to paint. He sat with his easel and a large<br />
umbrella on a high stool on the banks of his lily pond.<br />
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The weeping willow tree.<br />
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Monet not only purchased expensive water<br />
lilies from faraway lands to plant in his lily<br />
pond; he also had a Japanese wooden bridge<br />
built over it.<br />
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The Japanese bridge.<br />
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This is a Japanese bridge from Japanese artist<br />
Hokusai.<br />
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In 1914, the French Prime Minister asks Monet<br />
to paint some water lilies as a gift for France.<br />
Monet could barely see, but eventually painted<br />
the massive paintings that are displayed in the<br />
Orangerie in Paris.<br />
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Monet has several eye operations to save his<br />
sight and is given special glasses.<br />
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Monet has several eye operations to save his<br />
sight and is given special glasses.<br />
He dies at his beloved Giverny in 1926<br />
at age 86. Only days before, he had been<br />
delighted by the delivery of more Japanese lilies.<br />
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Monet has several eye operations to save his<br />
sight and is given special glasses.<br />
He dies at his beloved Giverny in 1926<br />
at age 86. Only days before, he had been<br />
delighted by the delivery of more Japanese lilies.<br />
Today, his house and garden at Giverny<br />
are a museum.<br />
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