Claude Monet is considered one of the most prolific French painters of the 19th century and a founding father of the Impressionist movement. It was Monet’s ability to repaint seemingly similar landscape scenes while effectively differentiating each paining’s symbolic meaning and memorializing these varying variations of color and fleeting effects of light and seasonal weather changes that truly distinguishes his style of painting from other painters. In order to gain greater insight into the evolution and impact of Claude Monet’s painting style, I thoroughly examined three of his most distinctive artworks painted during the time period of 1870-1890 on exhibit at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, CA and will focus my discussion upon the similarities and differences between these paintings which demonstrate Monet’s earlier and later painting styles.
