Claude Monet and the Impressionists.

Claude Monet is famous for being the founder of the group of artists called the Impressionists. He is also known for some great works of art he did during his career of being a painter. Monet had an ambition of painting the same scene over and over again. He did this to capture the changing of light and passing of seasons.

Born on the 14th of November 1840 in Paris , Monet was the second son of his mother and father. In 1845 the family moved to Normandy, where Monet's father wanted him to go into the family grocery business. But Monet had different plans. He wanted to become an artist. When Monet went back to Paris to visit the Louvre. He saw painters copying the normal way of painting. This was, at that time, having the person being in the centre of the picture. Artists did this to show the importance of that person in the picture. Monet didn't like these kind of paintings and decided to paint different ones. This was the start of the Impressionists. Impressionists would not focus on the people. But instead on the scene. Impressionists also couldn't put in very much detail. If they did the sky might change or something else might change. This would mean that they wouldn't be able to paint a moment in time, which was there objective. To avoid this happening the Impressionists had to paint fast. So instead of detail they decided that light and colour was more important.

Sadly on the 5 December 1926 Monet died of lung cancer. He was at the age of 86 and living in his house in Giverny where lots of his famous paintings were painted. Monet is now remembered for lots of things. But mostly for what a master of art

he was.