Claude Oscar Monet was born November 14, 1840 in Paris, France. His main life accomplishments included a French painter, initiator, leader, and unswerving advocate of the Impressionist style. He is regarded as the beginning of the Impressionist era, in that his devotion to the ideals of the movement was unwavering throughout his long career. For this painting, Monet's use of color along with use of intricate brush strokes is beautiful. The vast variations of brush strokes and …showed first 75 words of 286 total…

…showed last 75 words of 286 total…manage to create a specific tone of color with what he is using. I chose this artist because I really like his style of painting and his determination in the process. Monet's paintings visually changed throughout his lifetime, but he always kept that sort of relaxed painting sort of style, with soft edges and no straight lines of edges, which later became known as impressionism. As he likes his paintings very relaxed and soft looking.