Claude Monet

• Born in Paris, France in 1840

• He was a great artist that helped invent a style of painting called Impressionism

Monet’s Paintings

• Many of Monet’s paintings are pictures of water, lakes, boats….and Ponds

Painting Outside

• Monet liked painting outside

• He tried to get his friends to paint outside with him, they thought he was crazy

“Impressionists”im-presh-on-ist

•A lot of people in France didn’t like the what Monet painted, they thought it was boring

•A French newspaper called him an “Impressionist” for his impression of how the world looked

“Impressionists”

• Impressionism is a style of painting that kind of looks looks blurry or messy

• He used a lot of different colors to make it look like just one

• But when you step back, you can see the brush strokes are actually…..

Flowers!!

Water Lilies