Claude Monet (1840-1926) was a famous French Impressionist painter born in Paris. He helped establish Impressionism through his painting Impression, Sunrise. Monet studied art in Paris and painted outdoors capturing natural light and scenes. He is best known for his series paintings depicting the same subject in different lights such as his Haystacks series. His home and gardens in Giverny, France which featured his famous water lily paintings, are now a popular tourist destination.

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2. Outline
• 1)When did Claude Monet the live?
• Who was Claude Monet ?
• 2)From Where is Claude Monet
from?
• 3)Where did Claude Monet go to
School and study art?
• 4)What was Claude Monet art style?
• 5) What was Claude Monet most
famous work?

3. 1)When did the artist live?
• Claude Oscar Monet; Paris,
November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926
“He Live in the season the artists more paucity
than ever”
The time of the Impressionist movement.
Claude Monet was a key figure in
the Impressionist movement that
transformed French painting in the
second half of the nineteenth century.

4. Who was Claude Monet ?
• Claude Monet also known as Oscar-
Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet
was a founder of French impressionist
painting, and the most consistent and
prolific practitioner of the movement's
philosophy of expressing one's
perceptions before nature, especially as
applied to plain-air landscape painting.
The term Impressionism is derived
from the title of his painting
Impression, Sunrise.
By: Pierre Auguste Renoir - Claude Monet

5. 2)From Where is Claude
Monet from?
• Bonjour!
• Claude Monet is from France ! !
Located 80 km West from Paris
France in the village of Giverny, 4 km
from the town of Vernon, Claude
Monet House and Gardens are open to
visitors : the water lily pond, Japanese
bridge, Grande Allee, flower garden
and more.
You haven't lived yet if you haven't
visited this beautiful place : better in
the Spring of Course ! Fisherman's Cottage on the
Cliffs at Varengeville, 1882
by Claude Monet

6. 3)Where did Claude Monet go
to School and study art?
• He entered the Le Havre school of arts when
he was eleven years old, but had apparently
been painting since he was at least 5.
• Claude Monet studied at Académie Suisse in
1859 and at a a Parisian studio run by Charles
Gabriel Gleyre in 1862
• Monet opted instead to study at Gleyre's
avant-garde salon and studio, where he
established lifelong friendships with Frederic
Bazille, Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley.
The three began painting together en plein
aire (in the outdoors) in the forest of
Fontainbleau, South of Paris .
Oat Fields
by Claude Monet

7. 4)What was Claude Monet art
style?
• Impressionist style
• Monet's fascination with light
led him to paint several series
of pictures showing the effect of
sunlight on a subject. In these
pictures, he painted the same
subject at different times of the
day in different light. One such
study is found in the very
popular Haystacks series.
Dusk in Venice
by Claude Monet

8. 5) What was Claude Monet most
famous work?

9. What was Claude
Monet most
famous work?
• Impressionism
-The name comes from Claude Monet's painting Impression: Sunrise
-Tried to capture an immediate impression of what the eye sees at a
single glance
-Artists preferred to work outdoors in natural light, rather than in
their studio with sketches
-Tends to have brilliant colors that shimmer
-Artists favored subjects that appeared informal and spontaneous
-Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille
Pissarro, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet and Berthe Morisot are some
popular artists of this time period

10. • “I am following Nature without being able to
grasp her... I perhaps owe having become a
painter to flowers.”
• - Claude Monet
• “Most people think I paint fast. I paint very
slowly.”
• - Claude Monet

11. • self-portrait

12. Bibliography
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• Auricchio, Laura. "Claude Monet (1840–1926)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of
Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cmon/hd_cmon.htm (October 2004)
• "Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History." Claude Monet (1840–1926). The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, n.d. Web. 06 Nov. 2012.
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