In this issue of John Eric Home, we are taking a step back in time to rediscover some of the masterpieces painted by Claude Monet. Monet was one of the dominant landscape and architectural artists of the 19th century.
Claude Monet was born in 1840 in France and enrolled in the Academie Suisse. After an art exhibition in 1874, a critic insultingly dubbed Monet’s painting style “Impression,” since it was more concerned with form and light than realism, and the term stuck. Monet struggled with depression, poverty and illness throughout his life. He died in 1926.
Many of Monet’s famous works focus on the city architecture of Rouen, Le Havre and Venice among others…
