Claude Monet

  • Impression Sunrise

    ByDominik Szobak

    A single painting accidentally named an entire art movement — and its creator didn’t even mean to title it anything grand. Impression Sunrise, dashed off by Claude Monet in 1872, was described by a dismissive critic as mere “impression” work, and Monet essentially shrugged and agreed. That offhand insult became the badge of honor for…

  • Water Lilies (1906)

    ByDominik Szobak

    Here is a number that might stop you mid-scroll: Claude Monet painted roughly 250 versions of Water Lilies – and the 1906 canvas now hanging in the Art Institute of Chicago sits at the exact midpoint of that obsession, created at a moment when Monet was pushing paint further from reality than almost any Western…