The founder of French impressionist painting was Claude Monet was born Oscar Claude Monet (1840 –1926). He was the most dedicated, consistent, and prolific member of the Impressionist movement putting into practition the philoshophy of expressing ones experience and appreciation of nature, usually in a plein-air setting.
The movement's name was coined by an art critic after the title of one of Claude Monet's paintings, Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), 1872, Monet would paint subjects over and over at different times of the day to study the play of light and how it changed the colors, shadows, and depth of field within similar compositions. He painted many haystacks in this way, which were perfectly suited for the dashed application of paint and he imbued the different times of day with colors that worked together to create the appropriate brightness, vibrancy, or subtlety of light on the hay and surrounding field.
In every one of his paintings that I have looked at there are two subjects, the actual subject and it's shadow. He was brilliant at portraying shadows and creating soft and airy light filled landscapes full of soft focus detail that combine to create a relaxed and serene view.
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| Claude Monet, Haystacks, (sunset), 1890–1891 |
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| Claude Monet, Woman with a Parasol, (Camille and Jean Monet), 1875. |
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| Claude Monet, The Cliff at Étretat after the Storm, 1885 |
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