Claude Monet
Claude Monet was a French painter (1840–1926) whose work gave Impressionism its name.
His Impression, Sunrise prompted a critic's dismissive label that the movement embraced.
Monet is known for capturing light and atmosphere in landscapes, water lilies, and haystacks painted repeatedly under varying conditions.
His garden at Giverny became his most famous subject.
Norman commune, artistic pilgrimage
- ParisFrance's chief city
- NormandyNorthern French coastal region
- SeineMajor French waterway
- RouenNorman capital on Seine
France · Salon · Antibes · French Riviera
Small still body
- reflectionReturned light or thought
- lilypadFloating aquatic leaf
- bloomFlower or flourishing state
- floatingStaying atop liquid
aquatic · triptych · mural · water garden · wisteria · willows · iris · agapanthus
Painting outdoors, on location
- brushstrokesMarks left by painting
- lightVisible electromagnetic radiation
- colorVisual hue property
- atmosphereGaseous layer around planets
transient · ephemeral · dappled · loose · spontaneous · sunlight · shadow · reflection
Surface for mixing pigments
- brushworkPainter's stroke method
- canvasHeavy woven cloth
- easelUpright frame for paintings
- oil paintPigment bound with linseed
pigment · impasto · layering · color theory · complementary colors · sketch · study · composition
Piled dried grasses
- cliffsSteep natural rock walls
- ThamesLondon's river
- London fogSmog or milky tea
- VeniceLagoon city, northeastern Italy
railway station · wheat fields · meadows · riverbank · bridges · seascapes · garden · horizon
Giverny
Norman commune, artistic pilgrimage
Rouen · France · Salon · Antibes · French Riviera
pond
Small still body
- reflectionReturned light or thought
- lilypadFloating aquatic leaf
- bloomFlower or flourishing state
floating · aquatic · triptych · mural · water garden · wisteria · willows · iris · agapanthus · tranquility
plein-air
Painting outdoors, on location
- brushstrokesMarks left by painting
- lightVisible electromagnetic radiation
- colorVisual hue property
atmosphere · transient · ephemeral · dappled · loose · spontaneous · sunlight · shadow · reflection · fleeting
palette
Surface for mixing pigments
oil paint · pigment · impasto · layering · color theory · complementary colors · sketch · study · composition · texture
haystacks
Piled dried grasses
- cliffsSteep natural rock walls
- ThamesLondon's river
- London fogSmog or milky tea
Venice · railway station · wheat fields · meadows · riverbank · bridges · seascapes · garden · horizon · coastline
- artistsPablo Picasso, painter, artist, illustrators, Leonardo da Vinci
- French LuminariesVictor Hugo, Emile Zola, Louis Pasteur, Gustave Eiffel, Auguste Renoir
- French NotablesVictor Hugo, Emile Zola, Zola, Marcel Proust, Proust
- French peopleParisians, Bretons, Normans, Alsatians, Corsicans
- Belle EpoqueMoulin Rouge, cancan, can-can, absinthe, Art Nouveau
- French FiguresNapoleon Bonaparte, Marie Antoinette, Joan of Arc, Louis XIV, Louis XVI
Claude MonetJohannes Vermeer
Neoclassicism · photorealism · hyperrealism · Norman Rockwell · Pre-Raphaelites
Claude MonetKazimir Malevich
Black Square painter
Piet Mondrian · Mark Rothko · Jackson Pollock · abstract expressionism · suprematism
Claude MonetMarcel Duchamp
Urinal-as-art provocateur
conceptual art · Dadaism · readymades · Yoko Ono · anti-art