Article: Rocks at Belle-Isle, Port-Domois, Claude Monet.(Looking & Learning)

About the Artist

Most people are at least somewhat familiar with the work of French painter Claude Monet. As one of the most famous practitioners of Impressionism, a way of painting that was once considered a highly radical, but is now hugely admired and imitated, Monet broke the boundaries of nineteenth-century painting with his dappled, textural, dreamy landscapes. An artist who wanted to capture not only what he saw, but also what he felt about a scene, Monet strove, with his myriad slivers of color, to put the viewer in the same garden, or field, or beach as he himself had been.

Monet spent several years in the classical academic study of painting, ...

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