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A Biography of Claude Monet
This great biographical timeline of Claude Monet's life. Includes images of some of his works as well as the works of those who he referred.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Collections: Claude Monet
From the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this is a set of 37 images with descriptions of works by Claude Monet (1840-1926). Click on 'View All Works' to access the collection.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biography: Claude Monet Art for Kids
Kids learn about the biography of Claude Monet, artist, and painter of the Impressionist art movement on this site.
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: Explore Art: Claude Monet
A biography from the Getty 's Explore Art site. The site also includes four images of paintings by Monet from the Getty's collection, with information about technique, setting, and other details.
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Monet's Garden by the Sea
A great lesson plan using oil pastels where the student looks at Monet's "Garden at Saint-Adresse," and then creates their own composition focusing on foreground, middleground and background.
Robin Chew
Lucid Cafe: Claude Monet, Impressionist Painter
A brief biography of French impressionist painter Claude Monet. Includes links to selected paintings and picture of the artist.
Boston College
Boston College: Paintings of Claude Monet
This site features thumbnail images of various Impressionist of Claude Monet paintings.
Olga, Helen, Yuri and Sergey Mataev
Olga's Gallery: Claude Monet
Online gallery has over 180 paintings by Monet (1840-1926 CE) Includes concise biography.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: The Elements of Art: Color
Students will be introduced to color, one of the basic elements of art, through analysis of works of art by Monet, Matisse, and Kandinsky. Class discussion focused on these paintings will help students understand how artists use color to...
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Monet's Waterscapes
Students will learn the color theory and techniques that guided Claude Monet's impressionist painting and apply those techniques to the creation of their own works of art.
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Nelson Atkins Museum of Art: Monet's Water Lilies
Website for a 2011 gallery exhibit of a Water Lilies triptych by Claude Monet.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Monet's Magic [Pdf]
In this lesson, 4th graders will learn about the impressionistic painter, Claude Monet. Students will learn how to paint fuzzy (up and down strokes) while mixing tints, creating the illusion of water. They will also learn to do color...
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Columbus Museum of Art: View of Bennecourt
Image of the painting View of Bennecourt by Claude Monet. Includes a brief description of the art.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: Collection Highlights
Numerous pieces of art are available to view. Students just click on the red "s" and get a larger image of the piece as well as some information and inquiry about the piece. Teachers get a more in-depth overview as well as activity...
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Kunstmuseum Basel ( Fine Art Museum of Basel, Switzerland)
This is the home page of the Fine Art Museum in Basel, Switzerland. You can browse through the artworks in the collection online. Among the paintings on exhibit are ones by such renowned artists as Picasso, Gauguin, Monet, and Van Gogh....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Monet, the Gare Saint Lazare
In "The Gare Saint-Lazare, the Auteuil Line" Monet shows his keen interest in light, color, and paint handling. This painting has been singled out as among the most impressive paintings of Impressionism. View this picture and read about...
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Art Gallery of New South Wales: Create Your Own Impressionist Painting
Think you can paint like Monet? Choose from four of his paintings and see if you can match his style by copying one of his works with a virtual paint program.
The Wharton Group
Discover France: Art Nouveau
This site contains information on Art Nouveau in great detail. Find out what this term means, and how this "new art" adapted from old styles.
The Wharton Group
Discover France: Art Periods: Cubism
A detailed history and explanation of the ideologies behind cubism. Lots of cubism links as well.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Art Smart
Students will learn about the symbolic meanings associated with various colors. Then students will design a piece of art with colors that are reflective of their personal emotions.
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: Send a Postcard
Students develop an understanding of impressionsim by studying works of Claude Monet and then designing and sending their own postcards.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: Painting an Impression
Impressionists used new methods of mixing colors based on contemporary scientific writings about optics. This lesson plan explores the theory of optical color mixing, painting the same subject under different conditions of light, and the...
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Impressionism
The site from the National Gallery of Art contains a short overview of the Impressionist movement - several works are featured, with audio analysis of the paintings. More extensive galleries of Edouard Manet and Claude Monet are linked.