Claude Monet was born in Paris in 1840 and died at Giverny in 1926. Painting out of doors with a small circle of friends in the 1860s and 1870s, he gave Impressionism both its name and its method: to set down the sensation of light as it changes, rather than the fixed look of a thing.
His serial canvases — haystacks, the façade of Rouen Cathedral, mornings on the Seine — returned to one motif until color itself became the subject. In 1883 he settled at Giverny and made the garden, and above all the water-lily pond, the work of his last decades. He set the horizon aside. Leaf, sky, and reflection came to occupy the same surface, and the brushwork grew so free that a close view nearly leaves description behind. Those late paintings became a touchstone for artists after the war who were looking for an abstract landscape.
Monet’s place in the history of modern painting is not a matter of taste. The Water Lilies, in particular, carry Impressionism to its furthest point: a world made entirely of light, still recognizable, and already opening onto the century that followed.
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