“Monet is only an eye, but by God what an eye!” exclaimed Paul Cézanne in double-edged praise of his painting peer, the revered Impressionist master Claude Monet. It is unknown if Cézanne was aware ...

Perhaps no painter in history ever used color more precisely than Claude Monet. To create his famous pond and water lily paintings, he would obsessively return to the same scene dozens of times to ...

In 1914, Claude Monet was having a bad year. His beloved wife had died, cataracts clouded his vision, toothache dogged him, and Europe had plunged headlong into war. Soon, his son would be stationed ...

Imagine being an artist whose entire career revolves around the play of light and colour, only to lose your eyesight to cataracts. Monet was an excellent painter and he, alongside other artists like ...

Picture Vincent Van Gogh’s fiery swirls, enchanting olive groves and blazing stars leaping off the canvas, like the artist himself must have seen them. Watch Claud Monet create water that flows, ...