3 Bad Times and Good Times

Chapter 3 Bad Times and Good Times It is hard to imagine things getting any worse for Monet. And fortunately, at last, his luck changed... at least a little bit. A rich man in Le Havre wanted paintings—paintings by Monet. He wanted some portraits. So Monet did them as fast as he could. The man also bought two paintings of the sea. With this money, Monet rented a cottage for his family in a little town on the coast near Le Havre. He kept on working outside, experiment ing with light and shadows. He studied the light, so he could make the light in his paintings look real. He began to use different colors of paint instead of black to paint shadows. He stopped mixing colors on his palette. Instead he painted pure colors right on the canvas. If he wanted green, Monet put a tiny brush stroke of pure blue paint next to a dot of pure yellow. When he looked at the picture, his eyes

对莫奈来说，很难想象事情还会变得更糟。 幸运的是，他终于时来运转了…… 至少有一点。勒阿弗尔的一个富人想要画——莫奈的画。 他想要一些肖像。所以莫奈以最快的速度画了出来。 这个人还买了两幅海的画。 有了这笔钱，莫奈在勒阿弗尔附近的一个海滨小镇为家人租了一间小屋。 他继续在户外工作，试验光影。 他研究光线，这样他就能使他画中的光线看起来真实。 他开始用不同颜色的颜料代替黑色来画阴影。 他不再在调色板上调色。 相反，他在画布上画了纯粹的颜色。 如果他想要绿色，莫奈会把一小笔纯蓝色的油漆放在一个纯黄色的点旁边。 当他看着这幅画时，他的眼睛

blended the blue and the yellow and saw green. He once said, "When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you, a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape." That summer, Monet spent a lot of time with his old friend, Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The two painters worked outdoors together, side by side. Monet was still poor. Renoir was poor, too. But he was living with his parents. Sometimes he would bring over bread for Monet's family to keep them from starving. The two friends may have been poor and hungry, but they loved the work they were doing. They both painted pictures of a happy, busy outdoor restaurant on the Seine River. The sun shined on the people and boats and made lovely shadows on the water. Both their paintings of the restaurant would later become famous.

把蓝色和黄色混合起来，看到了绿色。 他曾经说过，“当你出去画画的时候，试着忘记你面前的东西，一棵树，一所房子，一片田野，或者任何东西。” 你只要想一想，这里有一个蓝色的小方块，这里有一个长方形的粉红色，这里有一条黄色的条纹，然后把它画出来，就像你看到的那样，准确的颜色和形状。” 那年夏天，莫奈花了很多时间和他的老朋友皮埃尔-奥古斯特·雷诺阿在一起。 这两位画家在户外并肩工作。 莫奈仍然很穷。雷诺阿也很穷。 但他和父母住在一起。 有时他会给莫奈的家人带来面包，以免他们挨饿。 这两个朋友也许穷困潦倒，饥肠辘辘，但他们热爱自己的工作。 他们都画了塞纳河上一家快乐、热闹的露天餐馆。 阳光照在人和船上，在水面上投下可爱的影子。 他们画的餐厅后来都很有名。

Yet in 1870, once again the Salon rejected Monet's pictures. His best friends—Bazille, Renoir, Sisley, and Pissarro—all had paintings accepted that year.

1870年，沙龙再次拒绝了莫奈的画作。 他最好的朋友巴齐耶、雷诺阿、西斯莱和毕沙罗的画作都在那一年被接受。

It was a hard time. But one good thing happened that year. Camille's parents said they would forgive her and even help support little Jean if she and Monet were married. So that's what Claude and

那是一段艰难的时光。但那一年发生了一件好事。 卡米尔的父母说，如果她和莫奈结婚，他们会原谅她，甚至会帮助抚养小琼。 这就是克劳德和

Camille did. The wedding was in Paris. None of Monet's family came.

卡米尔。婚礼是在巴黎举行的。 莫奈的家人都没来。

The bride and groom and little Jean went to a beach resort near Le Havre. Boudin and his wife joined them there. Monet painted pictures of Camille on the beach. Over the years, he was to paint her many, many times—on hillsides, in poppy fields, with a parasol, in a garden—often with little Jean at her side.

新娘、新郎和小琼去勒阿弗尔附近的一个海滩度假胜地。 布丹和他的妻子也加入了他们。 莫奈在海滩上画了卡米尔的画像。 多年来，他给她画了很多很多次——在山坡上，在罂粟田里，打着阳伞，在花园里——经常有小琼在她身边。