Claude Monet

Claude Monet's paintings examine how light and color change a place, combining outdoor observation with studio work. He painted beside Renoir at La Grenouillère in 1869, studying figures, boats, and reflections. Later series returned to grainstacks, poplars, and Rouen Cathedral under different conditions. At Giverny, his garden and lily pond supplied extended studies of water and reflection, sometimes reducing the conventional horizon as color and atmosphere changed the familiar view.