Claude Monet
Claude Monet was a founding member of the Impressionist art movement, which emphasized vibrant colors, candid attitudes, and, most crucially, a realistic depiction of light in its shifting aspects. Monet was the revolutionary art movement's guiding force, as well as its most steady and prolific practitioner. The name of the movement was inspired by his work Impression, Sunrise, and was coined in a satirical critique.
Monet was obsessed with discovering new ways to express himself via painting. He defied convention by thinking in terms of colors, light, and shapes. Some of his series looked at how smoke, steam, mist, rain, and other elements affected color and visibility. Monet's most famous series, Nympheas (Water Lilies), which encompasses roughly 250 paintings, has been dubbed "The Sistine Chapel of Impressionism."
Claude Monet is the most famous French artist and is regarded as one of the greatest painters of all time.
Masterpiece:
- Water Lilies series (1896 – 1926)
- Impression, Sunrise (1872)
- Rouen Cathedral series (1892 – 1893)
Lifespan: November 14, 1840 – December 5, 1926
Movement: Impressionism
Nationality: French
