| "> | | | | reality; but he painted a crowd of other aspects. The |
| Claude Monet (1840-1926), is the name that had | | | | seeing of reality, the act of perception itself, and the |
| epitomized the movement of impressionism in art of | | | | feeling of here and now: these were the aspects he |
| painting. He had not only initiated that branch of | | | | embedded in his art. He demonstrated that how light, |
| painting, but he had also pushed it further. He did it | | | | especially bright light, tended to dissolve colours and |
| better than any other painters of his time. | | | | forms. Real aspect that made Monet's paintings so |
| Impressionism is not only the painting in open air. On | | | | beautiful was his spontaneous, broken, and skipping |
| part of the impressionist artists, the element that | | | | brushwork. He did this magic of converting the |
| makes their work so beautiful is in their determination | | | | beauty of nature on his canvases by using a very |
| to paint the reality before their eyes. They do not | | | | rich palette. His palette carried both fast and subdued |
| paint mere reality, but they do also reveal how they | | | | colours. He used various tones of all the colours. His |
| see the reality. It is the factor of judgment that | | | | skill to apply hues of all the colours was unmatched. |
| creeps into the paintings of these artists. And that | | | | And he did most of his paintings while sitting in front |
| makes the paintings of impressionists so attractive. | | | | of the objects he had chosen to paint. |
| In his paintings Claude Monet did not only painted | | | | |