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The painter Monet has a famous painting called Sunflower.

It is wrong to say that Monet has a famous painting called Sunflower.

Oscar claude monet (French: Oscar-Claude Monet,1840165438+10/4-1926 65438+February 5), a French painter, is known as.

Monet is one of the most important painters in France, and most of the theories and practices of Impressionism have been popularized by him. Monet is good at the experiment and expression of light and shadow. His most important style is to change the way shadows and outlines are drawn. In Monet's paintings, there are no very clear shadows, and there are no prominent or flat outlines. The color depiction of light and shadow is the biggest feature of Monet's paintings.

Visual observation is undoubtedly a creative genius. He is good at finding a phenomenon that has never been found before from the relationship between light and color.

He focused all his attention on light and color, and found the most suitable form to express the brightness difference between light and color. He abstracted the brightness difference between light and color from various other factors in painting and raised it to an unattainable height. Monet's visual observation is gifted, creative and extraordinary.

The works of Monet, the painter

First, the impression of sunrise

This painting, painted at 1872, depicts a port in le havre, Monet's hometown. It is the most classic of all Monet's works and can be called the pioneering work of Impressionism. What many people don't know is that it not only gave birth to the impressionist style, but also inspired the movement that is now a household name. The name "Impressionism" comes from this work called Impression Sunrise.

Second, Rouen Cathedral.

People are very familiar with Monet's series of water lilies, knowing that he painted many paintings of water lilies, but his most representative series is actually Rouen Cathedral, which runs through Monet's whole painting career. In order to grasp the changes of light and color, Monet painted dozens of paintings of Rouen Cathedral from the same angle, which is comparable to modern photography continuous shooting.