Claude Monet Paintings
Impressionism, Post-Impressionism
Claude Monet Paintings 1840
- 1926
France, Impressionism
Poppy Field, Argenteuil , 1875
Oil on canvas
Private collection
OIL PAINTING: Poppy Field, Argenteuil , 1875
Monet often showed natural color by breaking it down into its different components as a prism does. Eliminating black and gray from his palette, Monet rejected entirely the academic approach to landscape painting.