Activity Booklet

Claude Monet’S house and gardens activity booklet

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...... Baby : he was born on November 14, 1840 in Paris Welcome to Claude Monet’s Child: little Claude grew up in Le Havre, house and gardens! The master in Normandy. He hated school but spent his time doodling on a sketch book. of the house Teens: at the age of 17, he discovered painting Claude Monet moved Claude with the artist Eugène Boudin First name: Monet here in 1883. He lived and produced his fi rst canvases. and painted on this Enjoy Last name: your visit! His character: Monet was exacting, site for 43 years, until often dissatisfi ed and quite irascible. his death in 1926. Then But he was a tireless worker. it was Blanche Monet His beginnings: they were diffi cult: at fi rst hardly anyone liked what he painted! Hoschedé, widow of Monet’s eldest son, His success: at the age of 60, Monet was at the height of his career: collectors and who looked after museums fought over his paintings. the premises. Nowadays His work: all in all, he painted they are managed by approximately 2000 paintings the Foundation claude over about sixty years. Monet...

Now it is your turn to play! What is the name of Monet’s GAME 1 first famous painting?

Head off and explore Monet’s house and gardens using your booklet. Accompanied

by a merry frog, become acquainted with Decipher this rebus the artist, travel through his sanctuary, to find out!

and have fun fi nding the answers to ANSWER: all the games we have come up with! ------a

Aky! See you in Monet’s RO C fi rst studio! b y e Monet had k i a fi rst wife called r The Monet “style” C Camille. She was his favourite model The paintings on display here provide until she died at insight into Monet’s favourite themes, the age of 32. such as landscapes or scenes of everyday life. c Monet enjoyed painting in the open air, and trying Now let us head to convey the atmosphere of a place and upstairs to Monet’s bedroom! of a moment, light and colour variations depending on what time of day and season GAME 3 it was. His “style” consists in small dabs Monet’s case of of colour placed next to one another. love at first sight Fill in this grid with the names From afar they blend in… One day in 1883, whilst he was out of Monet’s artist friends, as if by magic! d walking in Giverny, Monet came who painted the pictures e across this house. He fell in love with hanging up in his bedroom. it instantly! He bought it and moved in with his large family: his wife AUGUSTE RENOIR – BERTHE MORISOT GAME 2 ÉDOUARD MANET – EUGÈNE BOUDIN – PAUL CÉZANNE Alice and their 8 children. Many GUSTAVE CAILLEBOTTE – PAUL SIGNAC Connect these friends also came to visit and the painting details to the house was often full of people, In the coloured column, title of the work from life and laughter. Whenever you will see the name of which they are taken. he wished to paint or enjoy another person close Then circle whichever detail f some peace and quiet, Monet to Monet appear, is not featured in any one who also vanished into his workshop or of the pictures in this room! became a painter. the garden. G 1 Portrait of Camille with a bouquet of violets V 2 Jean Monet on his Hobby Horse g M Haystack 3 I The Row Boat 4 Z 5 Woman with a Parasol ANSWER: B 6 Portrait of Poly ------R A flower enthusiast Continue your visit Let us now explore Monet was passionate about painting… outside, on the grounds known as the dining room as well as fl owers! Outside his home, he imagined downstairs! the “Clos Normand”. a garden that was designed like a painting. Made in Japan Here, on the “Clos Normand” grounds, he had trees cut Japanese art, called “Japonism”, down to create fl owerbeds. Each bed features one colour only, was very fashionable back in as on a painter’s palette. Nowadays, gardeners continue to make the 1860s. Monet was a fan! use of light and colour, in the same way that Monet did. He collected prints, some of which are displayed on the walls of this room. By the end of his life, he owned more than 200 of them. Yet Monet’s passion for Japan is not rike only to be found in this room: it is C y C R also very noticeable in the water O A

garden… you will see so later on! k

Back in Monet’s day, y ! painting furniture with Keep an eye open! a splash of colour was GAME Pick out 4 animals highly fashionable! 4 depicted on the prints and write their names down below...... After yellow, ANSWERS: go and see ...... which colours GAME 6 await you What are the flowerbeds ...... in the kitchen! seen on the “Clos Normand” grounds also called? ...... These square tiles are to be E found right above the stove: N now it is your turn to draw GAME 5 P those that are missing! A X S B Use the code t i to find out! o ANSWER: ------How many bridges GAME 7 Rebuild this quote by can you see in the water GAME ANSWER: putting Monet’s words back 8 garden? Count them all! - in the right order!

having - I – a – become – painter – fl owers - perhaps – owe - to.

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Use the underground passage to go and admire the water garden!

GAME 9

What colour are Japan in Giverny Using the list, At the back of the “Clos Normand” Japanese bridges usually? place the names of all the plants found grounds, across the railway line, in the water garden lies a plot of land that interested P in their correct Monet. He bought it in 1893 P place on the grid. to design a Japanese-inspired “water Then put the letters t M 3 garden”. He put in plants, landscaped that appear in the G coloured boxes back a pond in which he grew water lilies, in the right order. built a Japanese bridge which B Aky he painted green… Monet loved RO ! s C y light effects and refl ections: e k To create his he spent hours contemplating i ANSWER: r pond, Monet diverted BAMBOO – MAPLE – HYDRANGEA – WEEPING-WILLOW – C 4 his water garden… and painting it! the neighbouring river WATER-LILY – ROSE – POPLAR known as the Ru. --- Add some colour An XXL studio! to this mandala which GAME Monet enjoyed painting in the open air, has been inspired by 11 Monet’s garden! Turn round and walk back but not only! Back in his day, this place though the “Clos Normand” accommodated a very large workshop grounds to reach the shop! that was 49 feet high, 75 feet long and 39 feet wide. Here Monet designed huge paintings. To that end, he attached large canvases to the walls, on which he painted water lilies: these are the famous Water Lilies. This is why the place is called the “Water Lily Studio”!

GAME 10

Placed alongside each other, 9 1 2 6 5 7 4 the panels that form the Water Lilies constitute a huge décor. 8 5 9 2 What is the work’s full length? 6 2 7 8 3 Approximately how many Aky 8 5 3 1 9 2 Find out by filling in this GAME 12 pictures did Monet paint RO ! Sudoku grid with numbers throughout his life? C 1 3 4 y ranging from to . 1 9 e Before dying, Monet 9 6 2 8 1 3 k i destroyed at least 60 of his r

1 6 5 Find out by counting C paintings which he thought the number of flowers were poor, so that there may 5 ANSWER : 3 4 9 7 -- you can see inside ANSWER: be no trace left of them 2 8 5 4 1 Each number must only appear once per line, per column and per square. the mandala. after he was gone. The answer will appear in the coloured boxes, reading from top to bottom. 2 zeros! Then add ---- games answers

1 Impression, Sunrise (imp -press - N‘ – sun - rice).

2 a: Jean Monet on his Hobby Horse ; b: Haystack ; c: Portrait of Camille with a bouquet of violets ; d: The Row Boat ; e: Woman with a Parasol ; f: Portrait of Poly.

The odd one out: f. E U G E N E B O U D I N G U S T A V E C A I L L E B O T T E 3 Blanche also became a painter. E D O U A R D M A N E T P A U L S I G N A C Fondation Claude Monet, Giverny - All rights reserved. rights All - Giverny Monet, Claude Fondation / 4 For example: a heron; a fi sh; a cat; a peacock. P A U L C E Z A N N E B E R T H E M O R I Z O T 6 The fl owerbeds on the “Clos Normand” A U G U S T E R E N O I R grounds are referred to as paint boxes. P 8 6 bridges are to be found in the water garden. W E E P I N G W I L L O W A P 9 Japanese bridges are usually red. T M A P L E E H Y D R A N G E A 10 Placed alongside each other, Monet’s Water R b A M B O O R Lilies are 93 metres long (305 feet long). L S I E 3 9 1 2 8 6 5 7 4 12 Monet painted L 4 8 7 3 5 9 1 2 6 approximately Y 6 5 2 7 1 4 8 3 9 2000 pictures throughout 8 7 5 4 3 1 6 9 2 2 1 3 9 6 7 4 8 5 his life (20 fl owers). 9 6 4 5 2 8 7 1 3 1 4 9 6 7 3 2 5 8 5 3 8 1 4 2 9 6 7 7 2 6 8 9 5 3 4 1 Designed and published by: www.lapetiteboite-communication.fr. Illustrator : G. Queval. Translator: Camilla Jones. Photos © Difalcone © Photos Jones. Camilla Translator: Queval. G. : Illustrator www.lapetiteboite-communication.fr. by: published and Designed see you soon!

Fondation Claude Monet 84, rue Claude Monet - 27620 Giverny +33 (0)2 32 51 28 21 www.claude-monet-giverny.fr Open daily from the last week-end of March to November 1st, from 9.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. (last admission 5.30 p.m.)