2 A Rocky Start

Chapter 2 A Rocky Start Monet was sent to Algeria in northern Africa. He loved the heat and the light. He thought it was romantic to sleep in a tent in the desert.

莫奈被送到北非的阿尔及利亚。 他喜欢这里的热和光。 他觉得睡在沙漠里的帐篷里很浪漫。

Men were supposed to serve in the French army

男人应该在法国军队服役

for seven years. But after two years, Monet caught typhoid fever and was sent home on sick leave.

七年了。但两年后，莫奈得了伤寒，请了病假回家。

That summer, in Le Havre, Monet continued to paint outdoors. He met a Dutch artist—Johan Barthold Jongkind—who, like Boudin, painted outdoors. Jongkind and Boudin were his schoolmasters, Monet said later.

那年夏天，在勒阿弗尔，莫奈继续在户外作画。 他遇到了一位荷兰艺术家johan Barthold jongkind，他和布丹一样，在户外作画。 莫奈后来说，琼金德和布丹是他的老师。

Monet's aunt thought that his finished paintings looked like rough sketches. But she saw how hard Claude worked. So she paid the government to let Claude out of the army for good. Then she packed him off to Paris. His father promised him an allowance if he studied with a proper art teacher. So Monet tried more art classes. Monet's new teacher thought that he was a very good artist. However, he wanted Claude to make the models better looking than they really were. If their feet were too big, he thought Claude should

莫奈的姑姑认为他完成的画看起来像粗糙的草图。 但她看到克劳德工作有多努力。 所以她付钱给政府让克劳德永远退伍。 然后她把他打发到巴黎去了。 他父亲答应给他一笔津贴，如果他跟着一个合适的美术老师学习的话。 所以莫奈尝试了更多的艺术课。 莫奈的新老师认为他是一位非常优秀的艺术家。 然而，他希望克劳德把这些模型做得比实际好看。 如果他们的脚太大，他认为克劳德应该这么做

make them smaller. Monet did not agree. Not at all! He thought you should paint what you saw. Nor did he like painting inside a crowded, noisy studio. But something wonderful came out of these classes. Three of the students—Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Frédéric Bazille—became close friends of Claude's. For years, they all worked together. Bazille was a medical student. His parents paid for his art classes as long as he kept up with medical school. Renoir had started work as a china painter when he was only thirteen. Like Monet, he had saved enough money to come to Paris. Sisley was the lucky one, they all said. He was English. His father was a business-man in Paris and paid for his son's art studies without conditions.

让它们更小。莫奈不同意。 一点也不！他认为你应该把你看到的画出来。 他也不喜欢在拥挤嘈杂的画室里作画。 但这些课程带来了一些奇妙的东西。 其中三个学生——皮埃尔-奥古斯特·雷诺阿、阿尔弗雷德·西斯莱和弗莱姆·巴齐耶——成了克劳德的好朋友。 多年来，他们都在一起工作。 巴齐耶是医科学生。 只要他能上医学院，他的父母就为他支付美术课的学费。 雷诺阿在十三岁时就开始了瓷器画家的工作。 和莫奈一样，他也攒了足够的钱来巴黎。 他们都说西斯莱是幸运的。 他是英国人。他的父亲是巴黎的一名商人，他无条件地为儿子的艺术学习支付费用。