Claude Monet
Water Lilies, 1906
Oil on canvas

One of dozens of paintings drawn from life at home in Giveryny, Monet uses reflective qualities in water to eliminate the need to depict the horizon; instead, fuzzy outlines of trees and a clear sky and dabbled in between delicate lilies with thick brushstroke.

about the artist

Claude Monet’s Impression, soleil levant (1872) offered the name for the movement meaning to capture the fleeting perceptions of place, light, movement, and time. Monet would return again and again to the same scenes, indexing differences in atmosphere. His passionate study gave truth to the method: that to paint a picture objectively cannot always be true, and appearances are ephemeral.