Monet was a founding member of the Impressionist movement who dedicated his life to capturing the fleeting effects of light and atmosphere. Rather than focusing on fine details, he used short, broken brushstrokes and a vibrant palette to document how a single scene could change at different times of day. His ambitions to document the shifting qualities of light and colour in the natural world in the French countryside led him to two defining practices: painting en plein air, directly before his subject or scene, and returning to the same scene across different times of the day or season to record how changing light transforms colour and mood. His later years were spent at his home in Giverny, where he created his most iconic series featuring water lilies and Japanese-inspired bridges. By moving toward near abstraction in his final works, Monet broke decisively with traditional realism, proving that how we perceive a subject is just as important as the subject itself.
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