In the group's first independent exhibition, a painting by Monet entitled "Impression.
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This small town outside Paris, picturesquely situated along the Seine, became the centre of attraction for a whole series of Impressionist painters: Edouard Manet, Gustave Caillebotte, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley met there to capture their impressions on canvas. After the war, they settled in Argenteuil. During the Franco-Prussian War, Monet fled to London with his young family. However, severe financial crises hit Monet and his pregnant beloved Camille. On their joint excursions to Fontainebleau, they created magnificent fresh paintings in the open air that left the strict academic rules further and further behind.
His paintings were repeatedly rejected by the official Paris Salon, but Monet and his friends Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley were not discouraged. Light pastel tones found their way onto his canvases. He made his early artistic attempts with caricatures but then switched to open-air painting.
Monet was born in Paris, but grew up in Le Havre, on the Normandy coast, where his father ran a small grocery shop.
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