凯迪克奖获奖组合创作的一本新绘本，讲述了**画家莫奈的故事。

克劳德·莫奈是世界上最受喜爱的艺术家之一——他还在世的时候就已经享誉世界了。尽管他的面前摆着一条纯粹、平稳的路，但他拒绝了这种传统生活，而是选择了画家这条路。但他所画的不是普通的艺术，而是一种新的观察方式，后来被称为印象主义。

莫奈喜欢画他在周围看到的东西，特别是塞纳河。最初，他因为使用鲜艳的颜色和复杂的笔触而被拒绝——他的印象画让他备受谴责。但是很快，艺术品经销商和收藏家们每天早上都在排队，想看到莫奈所看到的东西。然而，莫奈等待的只有光线。不断变化的光线......每天早上，他手头都有十几张画布来画十几个不同的时刻。他的画笔来回移动，追逐阳光——他不辞艰辛，只为创作出一副似乎不费吹灰之力的画作。

A new picture book about the iconic artist Claude Monet, from the Caldecott-Award winning team that created The Noisy Paint Box.

Claude Monet is one of the world's most beloved artists--and he became famous during his own lifetime. He rejected a traditional life laid out clean and smooth before him. Instead he chose a life of art. But not just any art: a new way of seeing that came to be called impressionism.

Monet loved to paint what he saw around him, particularly the Seine River. He was initially rejected for using bright colors, tangled brushstrokes--

condemned for his impressions. But soon art dealers and collectors were lining up each morning to see as Monet saw. Monet, however, waited only for the light. The changing light...each morning he had a dozen canvases on hand to paint a dozen different moments. His brush moved back and forth, chasing sunlight--

putting in the arduous work to create an image that seemed to contain no effort at all.