Claude Monet was a French painter.The greatest painter of the impressionist times.IMPRESSIONIST ART:

* Soft colours.* Use of light and shadows.

*He was born in 1840 *14th November in Paris, France.

*His full name is Claude-Oscar Monet.

*Monet visited the famous museum, the Louvre.

*The Louvre inspired Monet.

*Monet painted what he saw from the windows.

The Louvre

*Monet and other artists developed new methods of painting.

*They created effects of light and shadows with quick brush.

*This new style is Impressionist or Impressionism.

Alfred Sisley, Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Frederic Bazille Eduard Manet

*Impressionism is an art movement that was started by a group of French painters.*Changed the ways of art. *Lines were replaced by rounded shapes or tiny dots. *Dark shadows became colourful and bright. *These painters often enjoyed painting outside. Claude Monet's

Impression Sunrise, was the inspiration of the term impressionism.

Claude Monet and Camille Doncieux married in 1870.Monet and Camille had two children Jean and Michel.

On the 5th of December, 1926, Monet died.