James H. Rubin

Claude Monet (1840-1926) is one of the most admired and famous painters of all time, and the architect of Impressionism: a revolution that gave birth to modern art. His technique—painting out of doors, at the seashore, or in the city streets—was as radically new as his subject matter, the landscapes and middle-class pastimes of a newly industrialised Paris. Painting with...