Who is Claude Monet?

Claude Monet was a painter who loved to show how light and color change throughout the day.

Imagine you're sitting on a bench in a park, watching the sun move across the sky. At sunrise, everything looks soft and pink. By noon, it's bright and yellow. In the evening, everything turns warm and orange. Now imagine being able to paint that whole journey, from soft pink to bright yellow to warm orange, just by looking at the same place over and over again.

Claude Monet did exactly that, but with water lilies and a pond instead of a park bench.

Monet painted lots of pictures of the same scene, like his garden or a house across the water. Each time, he changed just a little bit, maybe the light was different, or the clouds looked softer. He wanted to show how things look alive and changing all the time.

It's like taking a photo of your favorite toy every hour for a whole day, you'd see it in different lights, from bright noon to the cozy glow of bedtime. That’s what Monet did with paint!