Claude Monet (1840 – 1925), a founder of Impressionism, was one of the most influential landscape painters in the history of art. Rejecting the traditional approach to depicting the natural world, the French painter’s lifelong goal was to portray variations in light and color caused by changes of time, atmosphere and season. His ethereal “Artist’s Garden at Giverny, 1900,” was his masterful representation of the garden he created at his Giverny home specifically for the purpose of capturing its beauty in his paintings.

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