In Week 2 of our Artist Study we have been exploring the French artist Claude Monet.  He was a painter who used materials to imply a picture rather than draw it exactly as we would see it.

We discovered these interesting facts about Monet:

• You can tell he was born and lived a long time ago because the photos of him have no colour in them – Jamin
• He liked to paint pictures of nature and not really people. We know these are called landscapes. – Nina
• We draw a picture by colouring in the lines. Monet used lots of little brush marks together to make his picture and no lines. – Zac

Take a look at the paintings we were most inspired by below:

Some of us preferred Monet’s pieces to Kandinsky’s because they were clearly paintings of objects we know. Miss Dunn told us this was because Kandinsky was an Abstract artist.

 

Try and investigate what this word means at home!