Claude Monet. Not Just a Painter a Creator of Beauty

Short essay about the painter Good, very descriptive, well put together The most famous of the impressionist painters, Claude Oscar Monet, born, November 14, 1840 and died. December 5, 1926, was also the most committed to recording the effects of light and atmosphere on art work. This idea led Monet and his colleagues to develop the techniques of impressionism Monet advised his fellow painters to concentrate on the play of light and color of the objects that they had …

…Parliament. But Monet's key subject after 1890 was the lily pond he had built at his home in Giverny. These now hang in the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, and in the Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris. Sky, water, and vegetation are transformed into swirling, vibrant masses of color, Claude Monet used every element of color to transform his art into a pieces of beauty. Bibliography: Isaacson, Joel, Claude Monet (1978); Joyes, Claire, Monet at Giverny (1976);