Impressionism Webquest

To finish our discussion of the Industrial Revolution we will be going on a webquest where you search for information online to find answers to questions about the artistic movement called Impressionism.  Use the websites below to answer the questions.  You need to write your answers on the paper that I give you but you find the answers on the websites below.

 

 

WEBQUEST FOR CLAUDE MONET due Tuesday, November 15

 

You need to access 2 different sites to complete the questions:

1. http://library.thinkquest.org/J001159/famart.htm?tql-iframe
2. http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Art/Monet/Monet.shtml

 

1. When was Claude Monet born?_______________________________
2. In what year did he die?_______________
3. What was his middle name?___________________
4. In what town did he grow up?_________________________
5. When he was young he noticed the changing appearance of what 2 things?____________________and _______________________
6. Where did he hang his first pictures?___________________________
7. Who was the painter of coastal scenes who befriended Monet?______
8. Why was he important?_____________________________________
9. Where did Monet first study art in Paris?_______________________
10. Where did he study art next?_________________________________
11. Name 2 now famous artists he studied with in Patis?______________________and__________________________
12. By 1865 where was Monet painting?__________________________
13. Name 2 types of subjects Monet was painting in the 1860s.  _______________________and______________________________
14. What artist worked with Monet in 1869?________________________
15. What movement did they help to create?________________________
16. From 1872 to 1875 in what subjects was Monet interested?_________   __________________________and___________________________
17. What was the first subject that Monet painted over and over again in a series?________________________
18.  – 20.  Name 3 other subjects he painted in a series.______________,

_________________________and____________________________

      21. Monet was always interested in the effects of __________________

            and _________________________.

      22. When he painted Monet concentrated on the play of _____________

            and _________________on objects.

      23. As Monet became a successful painter, in what town in Normandy

            did he reside?________________________

      24. After 1890 what was the key subject of his work?________________

      25. What does the French word “nympheas” mean?_________________

      26. Name the 2 museums that have large groupings of his water lilies?

            _________________________and___________________________

      27. Why didn’t Monet’s parents want him to become an artist?

            __________________________________________________

      28. Was Monet always successful?_______________

      29. Name Monet’s two wives._______________and________________

      30. Name Monet’s two sons.________________and________________

 

31. – 35. Look at some of Monet’s paintings at the National Gallery of  Art web site.  Find one that you especially like.  Give me the name of it.  Describe it here.  Tell me what you like about it.  Now create a cover and use this painting!

 

www.nga.gov/collection/index.shtm

 

       Name of Painting___________________________________________

     

Description_______________________________________________

       _________________________________________________________

       __________________________________________________________

 

      Why do you like it?__________________________________________

       _________________________________________________________

      __________________________________________________________

      __________________________________________________________