Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and known for expressing one’s perceptions before nature. Modernism art is really about expression during this time of change and I believe it represents that you can find reasons to see beauty even when you have many reasons to see the ugliness in the world as well. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise. He was a key painter for the modernism art movement. Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, and an emphasis on accurate depiction of light. These one of a kind brush strokes were even called Monet brush strokes is notorious for painters all around the world. This painting is part of a series named “Water Lillies” and there are approximately 250 paintings that exist in the world.The paintings depict his flower garden at his home in Giverny, and were the main focus of his artistic production during the last thirty years of his life.

This painting is called Agapanthus and was painted during the period 1914- 1926. Just imagine that this painting is almost a century old. This painting uses very thin brush strokes and made the colors flow so nicely. The color blended so fluently as i move closer to the painting.I chose this painting because it caught my eye. I felt like the flowers were popping out of the painting. I also really liked how the outline of the painting was so unique, it was almost like it was unfinished. This made me believe the famous painter wanted to communicate that no art should ever be finished because art will never come to an end. It was almost like a element of negative space, making the art look more three dimensional. These edges also gave this painting such an organic feel. This painting felt so realistic to me that it seemed like the artist drew exactly what he saw and wanted to highlight the beauty in his garden.

I personally took an art class in Baruch so oil paintings also usually draw me more than other painting tools. Paintings that use oil is very ancient and very valuable. Oil paintings are considered to develop high status to the home owners because of its mass popularity and the way it ages.

I would ask the artist:

Why he chose to paint just flowers and what significance flowers have to him?

Why did the artist choose to have the edges unfinished? Was it an intentional effect?

“Biography of Claude Oscar Monet.” Claude Oscar Monet – The Complete Works – Biography, https://www.claudemonetgallery.org/biography.html.