Artistic Philosophy

Monet has been well known for his Impressionist style paintings and for being one of the foundings artists of the Impressionist movement. This meant to Monet trying to capture the movement light gives to a subject. The movement began as some say from a painitng of Monet's titled "Impressionist Sunrise", (to the left). This came from the words critics had used to describe Monet's work saying it had looked like an impression of a finished painting. Impressionism was founded on light and movement and was only popular from the late 1860's to 1890's but even then Monet had still painted in his impressionist manor until his death in 1926.
By: Sarah Rowe
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