Claude Monet- an impressionist painter
Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter. Born in 1840, Monet was one of the founders of Impressionist art. Impressionism was a major movement in France in the late 19th century. Impressionist painters believed in accurately recording the visual reality and effects of light and color. So even while other painters would use to merely copy works of master artists, Monet paintings were all about landscapes and he mostly painted outdoors rather than sitting in studios.
Monet painting were purely impressionist. A characteristic of impressionist painting is use of broken thick brushstrokes of unmixed colors which led its critics to say they looked like unfinished paintings. Impressionist painters like Monet caught spontaneity in the paintings and had fresh vision.
His paintings had lot of beaches, harbors, gardens, and roads. Monet painted very little human figures. Monet?s best works have been Camille, Water Lilies, Woman in the garden, the Poppy fields and Impression, Sunrise. The latter, was the painting which led an art critic Louis Leroy to coin the term Impressionist, out of criticism. For anyone to own Monet paintings now are not difficult as you can get oil reproductions of his famous works, online. Works of all famous artists can now be replicated and one can own these oil paintings at very low costs.