Claude Monet

奥斯卡-克洛德·莫奈（法语：Oscar-Claude Monet，发音：[klod mɔnɛ]；1840年11月14日－1926年12月5日），法国画家，印象派代表人物及创始人之一，“印象”一词即是源自其名作《印象·日出》，该画作于1874年在莫奈及其同事举办的第一次独立展览中展出。

莫奈擅长光与影的实验与表现技法，最重要的风格是改变了阴影和轮廓线的画法，在其画作中没有非常明确的阴影，亦无突显或平涂式的轮廓线。此外，他对于色彩的运用相当细腻，曾长期探索实验色彩与光的完美表达，常在不同的时间和光线下，对同一对象作多幅描绘。

莫奈记录法国乡村的野心使他采取了多次绘制同一场景的方法，以捕捉光线的变化和季节的流逝。从1883年起，莫奈居住在吉维尼，在那里他购买了房屋和地产，并开始了一个大型的美化项目，其中包括了之后成为他的作品的主题的百合池。 他从1899年开始画睡莲，首先是以日本桥为中心的垂直视图，后来又用20年的时间创作了一系列大型画作。
 
 

Oscar-Claude Monet (UK: /ˈmɒneɪ/, US: /moʊˈneɪ/, French: [klod mɔnɛ]; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris.

Monet's ambition of documenting the French countryside led him to adopt a method of painting the same scene many times in order to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons. From 1883, Monet lived in Giverny, where he purchased a house and property and began a vast landscaping project which included lily ponds that would become the subjects of his best-known works. He began painting the water lilies in 1899, first in vertical views with a Japanese bridge as a central feature and later in the series of large-scale paintings that was to occupy him continuously for the next 20 years of his life.