Claude Oscar Monet

impressionism

Claude Monet Paintings 1840 - 1926 French Prominent Impressionist Painter

Autumn on the Seine at Argenteuil , 1873

Oil on canvas

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OIL PAINTING: Autumn on the Seine at Argenteuil , 1873
For traditional landscape artists illusionism was conditioned first of all by the mind: that is, painters tended to depict the individual phenomena of the natural world - leaves, branches, blades of grass - as they had studied them and conceptualized their existence. Monet, on the other hand, wanted to paint what he saw rather than what he intellectually knew. And Monet saw not separate leaves, but splashes of constantly changing light and color.