Claude Monet in Argenteuil & Vetheuil
Claude Monet along the Seine River
Monet and his family spent 1871 - 1878 in Argenteuil where he produced nearly 170 works of art. Just a 15 minutes train ride from Paris, Argenteuil was a popular destination for sailing because it was right on the Seine River. It was also close enough to Paris for a day trip to get out of the city. Monet's family, friends and the river landscapes were the subjects of his artwork during this period. By 1878, the once tranquil village of Argenteuil had become commercialized so Monet picked up ...

Claude Monets Landscapes Around Giverny
Claude Monet's Paintings in and around Giverny
Monet and his family settled into Giverny, France in 1883. The subsequent 40 years of his life were mostly spent painting the landscapes within a 2 mile radius of his famous Giverny home and gardens. It was during this time that he painted his most famous series of paintings - Poplars, Haystacks, Mornings on the Seine, and of course the infamous Waterlilies (see my Giverny garden lens). In these series, Monet strove to capture his landscape subjects at different times of the day, atmospheric...

A Monet Moment
Respite in the Garden of Giverny
There is something restful, but at the same time alive with the color and feeling of a summer's day in many of Monet's paintings. Perhaps because so many of them were of gardens, flowers, and the beauty of such sunny blue skies, and so this lens is dedicated to taking a few moments to stop and peer into the paintings of Claude Monet while listening to background sounds and thinking a bit about his painting and life. Enjoy yourself here, pour yourself a glass of lemonade or a cup of tea and t...

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Claude Monet Biography
French painter Claude Monet was the seminal figure in the development of impressionism style of painting, an important  movement in the development of modern art. Also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet ( born November 14, 1840 died December 5, 1926) was a father of French impressionist painting, and the most uniform and productive practitioner of the movement's doctrine of conveying one's perceptions before nature, particularly as applied to plein air landscape painting. The ...

Monet's Series Paintings - Stacks of Wheat
Find out more about Monet's Grainstacks Series
Monet's first set of paintings completed as a series were devoted to stacks of wheat in the field next to his home at Giverny. Find out more about Monet's grain stacks series (sometimes called haystacks) - including links to where you can see them in art galleries and museums. For an explanation of the differences between haystacks and grain stacks see below.

Claude Monet
Claude Monet Introduced Impressionism!
When Monet traveled to Paris to visit the Louvre, he witnessed painters copying from the old masters. Having brought his paints and other tools with him, he would instead go and sit by a window and paint what he saw. Monet was in Paris for several years and met other young painters who would become friends and fellow impressionists; among them was douard Manet. In June 1861, Monet joined the First Regiment of African Light Cavalry in Algeria for a seven-year commitment, but, two years later, ...

Claude Monet
Claude Monet (1840-1926) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Impressionist school of painting. With Renoir, he developed the "broken color" technique of painting, whereby dabs of different colors are laid side-by-side on the canvas by the painter and the colors are then blended by the eye of the viewer. This method better catches the changing effects of the light. Monet also practised the "plein air" (open air) style of painting, painting the same scene at different hours of...