Painter name: Claude Monet Form of art belong: Impressionism

He was an Impressionist painter and painted much differently than all of the famous painters of his time. He had new, fresh ideas about what art should be.

Claude Monet was born in Paris, France in 1840. When he was little his family moved to LeHavre, a town near the sea. His father owned a stove that sold supplies to sailors.

Monet didn't like school. He didn't like to listen to his teacher. He did like to draw funny pictures. He drew funny caricatures of people and sold them for money when he was a teenager.

Claude went to Paris to learn to paint. But Claude Monet didn't like to paint like the famous artists in Paris. He liked to paint ordinary things. He liked to paint outdoors. He used light, bright colors. He used short, fast brush strokes. Monet loved to paint water scenes. He wanted to show reflections and how light made things look at different times of the day. He even built a special boat that he could paint on. He floated in the water and painted what he saw. Sometimes he painted the same things at different times of the day or year to show how things like in different lights. His Haystack paintings are like this.