Claude Monet (1840–1926) was a passionate pursuer of natural effects, a magician with a brush. Specific moments in time seemed to flow from his hand as if he were one with his world, resulting in ...

Beginning in 1890, Claude Monet spent one year painting giant stacks ... but when I confronted the wheatstacks, they flat out denied it. I said, “Hey, dipshits, where’s my paint?” ...

Much of Claude Monet’s life and work had been a mad ... Setting up his easel in front of Rouen cathedral, or the wheatstacks in the frozen meadow outside Giverny, or the windswept cliffs at ...

women with parasols and wheatstacks. When the Art Institute of Chicago closes the doors Sunday evening on “Claude Monet: 1840-1926,” it’s expected more than 900,000 will have viewed the 159 ...

Until recently, my only exposure to the brilliant work of Claude Monet came through the pages of a college textbook and a bit of dialogue between George Clooney and Julia Roberts in that classic ...