Essays on Claude Monet

Impressionism is an art movement that developed in France in the 19th century. It was pioneered by painters such as Claude Monet. It surfaced through independent art exhibitions, and was at first harshly criticized as merely being an incomplete sketch, or “impression” of the image....

Revolutionary Painters At the turn of 19th century painting undergone a lot of changes with new discoveries in science and the defeat of France in Franco-Prussian war. Artists like Edouard Monet and Georges Seurat helped shape these transformations. Monet is usually seen as the father...

Claude Monet was a leading artist of the nineteenth century Impressionist movement. In fact it was Monet’s painting Impression, Sunrise (1872), which is credited for the origins of the movement’s name. Monet’s various departures form the norm such as the use of color, light, and...

The landscape of our earth has been interpreted differently by countless artists through many unique forms. Landscapes have been a common subject for art and are a way for artists to express how they observe the world through their mediums as well as to explore...

During the time both when Claude Monet was alive and now dead, he has had many opinions by different audiences. Some have been positive but some have also been critical. This was due to at the time of his original works, impressionism was still frowned...

Garden in Giverny was painted by Claude Monet in 1900. This piece has many impressionist characteristics in it such as his use of many small brushstrokes, especially visible in the water and sky. Impressionist artwork is also characterized by painting the change of light in...

La Japonaise: Claude Monet, 1876 Claude Monet’s life-size oil painting of his wife Camille in La Japonaise is housed in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, depicting her dressed in a Japanese kimono and surrounded by paper fans. She stands out amongst the blue...

In Monet’s Water Lilies, the most abundant color is a deep blue. This forms the background of the piece. Since the painting is of lilies on a pond viewed from the side, one would expect there to be a line separating the water from the...