Claude Monet

奧斯卡-剋洛德·莫奈（法語：Oscar-Claude Monet，發音：[klod mɔnɛ]；1840年11月14日－1926年12月5日），法國畫傢，印象派代表人物及創始人之一，“印象”一詞即是源自其名作《印象·日出》，該畫作於1874年在莫奈及其同事舉辦的第一次獨立展覽中展出。

莫奈擅長光與影的實驗與表現技法，最重要的風格是改變了陰影和輪廓綫的畫法，在其畫作中沒有非常明確的陰影，亦無突顯或平塗式的輪廓綫。此外，他對於色彩的運用相當細膩，曾長期探索實驗色彩與光的完美表達，常在不同的時間和光綫下，對同一對象作多幅描繪。

莫奈記錄法國鄉村的野心使他采取了多次繪製同一場景的方法，以捕捉光綫的變化和季節的流逝。從1883年起，莫奈居住在吉維尼，在那裏他購買了房屋和地産，並開始了一個大型的美化項目，其中包括了之後成為他的作品的主題的百合池。 他從1899年開始畫睡蓮，首先是以日本橋為中心的垂直視圖，後來又用20年的時間創作了一係列大型畫作。
 
 

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.