Oscar-Claude Monet (Paris, 14 November 1840 - Giverny, 5 December 1926) was a French impressionist painter.
Monet's works belong to Impressionism. Monet mainly tried to make a display of a certain moment. He painted landscapes, for example in Normandy.
From the 1880s, he began making series of paintings of the same subject under different light and weather conditions. Examples of such series are those of haystacks and the cathedral of Rouen. His famous series of water lilies makes Claude Monet at the end of his life when his sight got worse. This makes his works more abstract and less detailed.
Monet can be regarded as the founder and most faithful representative of Impressionism.
