Claude Monet

The master of the impressionist movement Claude Monet painted many beautiful landscapes as well as some portraits. He used a style that was very representational but in his paintings you could see the brushwork. Some of his work looks somewhat similar to that of Van Gogh's but Monet's is more realistic. He painted things like meadows, flowers, trees and other landscapes. He liked to paint objects and scenes from our everyday lives. His most famous and most recognized works are most likely the paintings of the water lilies and paintings of the haystacks. Many people were lost in his work because that had not seen paintings like this before. They created a new genre of art around his work and other painters who were doing similar style called Impressionism. He was at first victim of some criticism for his style. People would say that his paintings looked unfinished. But he enjoyed that style and it stayed with him through his entire career and made him very successful.