Claude Monet

Claude Monet is the founder of the art world's French Impressionist movement. At a time when other painters were mocking the color and style of the old masters, Monet, began seeing something different and set it to canvas. His philosophy expressed nature as it truly was with all its softness and muted glory.

Monet became a prolific painter bringing to life people and landscapes of his time. His painting, 'The Woman in the Green Dress' brought him is first real recognition. The subject of that painting, Camille Doncieux, became Monet's beloved wife. After her death the bereaved Monet painted with greater devotion, vowing never again to sink into poverty.

In 1883 Claude Monet remarried and rented a plot of farm land, making the barn his studio. It was from that location that he finally began to realize material rewards. Later he would purchase a large plot of land, build a proper studio, and continue his series of paintings depicting the varying light of the day and weather conditions.