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1. Monet was a cartoonist.
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As a young man, Monet was well-known for drawing caricatures (cartoons). Some were of his school teachers. > Find out more about Monet's life
2. Monet's father wanted him to go into the family grocery-store business, but Claude Monet wanted to become an artist.
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Imagine how different art history would have been without Monet’s influence! > Find out more about Monet's early life on Wikipedia
3. The Impressionists made their own paints by hand.
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The Impressionists used pre-mixed paints kept in lead tubes. This kind of paint allowed them to work more spontaneously than earlier painters who made their own paints by grinding and mixing dry pigment powders with linseed oil, and then stored them in animal bladders. > More about Impressionists' techniques
4. The Impressionist movement was named after one of Monet’s paintings.
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Impressionism is derived from the title of Monet’s painting ‘Impression, Sunrise.’ In the years 1865–1866, Monet met other painters who would influence each other's style of painting and together they came to be called the "Impressionists". A number of Impressionists regularly gathered at the Guerbois café in Paris, including Monet, Renoir, Degas, Sisley, sometimes Cézanne, Pissarro, and others. They often met on Sundays and Thursdays. The unofficial leader of these discussions was Édouard Manet. > More about Impressionism
5. En plein air describes the brush-stroke technique employed by the Impressionists.
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En plein air is a French expression which means ‘in the open air’, and is particularly used to describe the act of painting outside. > More information about en plein air painting on Wikipedia
6. The first series exhibited by Monet was devoted to haystacks.
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Monet's first series of paintings depicted the Creuse Valley, and was exhibited at the Galerie Georges Petit (Georges Petit Gallery) in 1889. Two years later, in 1891, he exhibited a series of 15 paintings of grainstacks. His Rouen Cathedral series (more than 30 paintings) was exhibited in 1895. > More information about Monet's series
7. The established art world in France was quick to embrace the work of Impressionists.
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The Impressionist’s works were initially rejected by the Salon. But after seeing the rejected works in 1863, Emperor Napoleon III decided that the public should be allowed to judge the work for itself. An exhibition of the Salon des Refusés (Salon of the Refused) was organised, and attracted more attention and visitors than the Salon. > More about the Impressionists' beginnings
8. Monet’s garden was created so he could paint it.
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Monet was an avid lover of nature, and originally created his garden so he could paint it. Monet lived in Giverny for 20 years, and painted the Japanese bridge, his family, and his famous Water Lily series there. In 1981, Monet’s house and garden were opened as a museum to the public. > More about Monet's life
9. When Monet travelled to Paris to visit the Louvre Museum of art, he witnessed painters copying from the old masters. Monet would instead go and sit by a window and paint what he saw outside with the painting tools he often carried with him.
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10. Camille Doncieux was the second wife of Claude Monet.
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Camille was Monet’s first wife. He gained his first recognition as an Impressionist artist with a painting of her entitled Camille or The Woman in the Green Dress (La Femme à la Robe Verte), painted in 1866. > More about Monet's early life on Wikipedia
