Claude Monet Water Lilies Impressionist Painting Playing Cards

Claude Monet Water Lilies Impressionist Painting Oscar-Claude Monet was 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. Water Lilies (or Nymphéas ) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet. The paintings depict Monet's flower garden at Giverny. Current location: Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art Art by Claude Monet Movement: Impressionism Beautiful artistic floral vintage fine art painting.