Claude Monet
Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) was a French painter known for his leading role in the French Impressionist movement. Monet worked in the open air, documenting the change of natural...
Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) was a French painter known for his leading role in the French Impressionist movement. Monet worked in the open air, documenting the change of natural light during different times of day, and employing this technique in his series of paintings. The first Impressionist exhibition in 1874, caused a stir in the public and art world, but in the following decades, public and critical opinion changed towards the style and gave Impressionists like Monet, the esteemed acknowledgment they deserved. Over the course of his prolific career, Monet produced more than 2,000 paintings with Impression, Sunrise, and his Water Lilies series being arguably his most famous. Monet's works are held in museums around the world such as the collections of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the National Gallery in London, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.