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Claude Monet continued to refine the method open to them in the numerous sketches that he wrote in the paddling pool - a favorite holiday destination of Parisians. He went there with Renoir, leaving the forest of Fontainebleau, which served as kind to the School of Barbizon. In the 'paddling pool, "Claude Monet wanted to show the surrounding life in all its diversity: a game of solar flares on the surface of the water waving, crowded motley crowd of travelers, which dissolves in the landscape and makes him a whole (" frog ", 1869, National Gallery, London).

The tragic events of 1870-1871. Claude Monet was forced to emigrate to London, where he made the trip to Holland. On his return from there began the most fruitful period in his work, in the years 1872-1873. he created some of the finest paintings - "Lilacs in the Sun" (1873, Pushkin Museum, Moscow), "Boulevard des Capucines" (1873, Pushkin Museum, Moscow), "Field of Poppies at Argenteuil" (1873, Musée d'Orsay, Paris), "Impression . Sunrise "(1872, Museum Marmottan, Paris), etc. In 1874, some of these paintings were exhibited at the famous exhibition, organized by the Anonymous Society of Painters, Painters and Engravers," the head of which was Claude Monet. After this show, named after the paintings of Monet's "Impression. Sunrise, artists and organizers, and got the name" Impressionists "(from the French. Impression - an impression).

Paintings by Claude Monet:
- "Frog", 1869, the National Gallery, London.
- "Lilacs in the Sun", 1873, Pushkin Museum, Moscow.
- "Boulevard des Capucines, 1873, Pushkin Museum, Moscow.
- "Poppy Field at Argenteuil, 1873, Musee d'Orsay, Paris.
- "Impression. Sunrise", 1872, the Museum Marmottan, Paris.