Claude Monet is best known as a leader of the Impressionists, his
paintings defining the style that triggered a revolution in art. During
the eighty-six years of his life, Monet never rested, and was always
driven by the urge to paint. And more than two thousand paintings
survive from six highly creative decades. Despite being a celebrity
among France's political and cultural elite, Monet never became
complacent. Even in his seventies and eighties he was still producing
paintings that astounded the art world. Monet's work remains highly
influential--his abstraction, gestural strokes and expressive color
capturing the imagination of generation after generation of artists.
This title is appropriate for ages 14 and up