I am a slave to my work, forever in pursuit of the impossible... I have little time left to live and I must give all of it to painting, in the hope that I will finally achieve something fine, which if it is possible will also satisfy me.Monet writes in his letter to his friend G. The artist, who gave the name to Impressionism with his artwork, devoted himself to express his perceived senses by means of painting. Monet did never have a desire to study at an academy. He had his own technique, although he studied and worked with painters. His works had never been made by a systematically-practiced technique.

He had his own technique that was continuously developing by transferring his observations to paintings.

The moving elements like tremble and pointy brush strokes were arranged by skilful placing.

The same themed paintings of different expressions may be seen as a reflection of the artists internal world.

This example may be seen as his expression of sadness for the occasion. Monet, who was a landscape painter, spent his childhood years in the nature of La Havre. He learnt the language of the nature, as he noticed the very slightest changes in the weather. When the people around saw the caricatures made by him, they realized his talent in painting. However he decided to become an artist when he met Boudin the painter. With the given encourage by Boudin, he begun to paint landscapes. He left his hometown, went to Paris and got into the art scene. His paintings of early years were accepted to the famous gallery of the period, named Salon.

But the very same place rejected his Impressionist works in the following years.

Monets art did not belong to any figural rules. He created his own technique according to his relation with nature and his observations. The Garden on summer theme, which he used in his early works, broke down the traditional light and form rules of painting and took on in a new way.

After the garden theme, there come sea landscapes.

In these works reflections on the water pictured by an impressionist view. Beach, riverside, sailboat and marina themes come after the sea landscape. In the pictures of this period, by improving his technique, he showed the reflection of the sunlight by drawing bright colors and cut brush strokes. Iron bridges and poppies found place as composition issues after this term. His impressionist look was getting clear in the six years following 1872.the year which the painter moved to Argenteuil.

This terms paintings may look like as photographic snapshots by the way of expression of the instant events.

Also Gar of Saint-Lazare series have a photographic look which was painted at the end of this period.

Sudden changes of light and its effects, take forms on the canvas in painters viewpoint.

He painted about riverside of Seine and country views.

Especially, he pictured ice breakings over Seine River as series.

In 1881.he went to Eterat and painted Rocks of Eterat series there.

In 1888 he started to paint haystack series.

While he was working on them, he also started the poplar series. The reason of choosing hays and poplars is to show the change of their appearance by transforming of light-shadow while they have the same form and same fixed posture.

In between 1892-1895 he made the Rouen Cathedral series.

Again, he focused on light and the effects of reflection more than a realistic and ideal image. His journey to Venice made him an admirer to this water city and gave him a reason to create new pictures full of light delusions. Monets last series is Waterlilies which he started in 1899 and continued till the end of his life. To paint the waterlillies in the pools of his garden in Giverny, he constructed two more studios in addition to the one in present. In the last years of his life, he suffered from sight disorder although he had an operation. For this reason, his last years paintings became deformational and looked as if they were abstract works. Light is the core theme of Monets paintings.

He had the mission to show the transforming image of nature with the changing light through the day in his paintings.

We can see these inquisitive practices in his last works.

The painter interested in objects images under the light more than the object itself. He searched a way to express these images related to light with colors and he improved his technique with renovating continuously. Thats why he painted the same object in series. Light delusions comes from sudden changes of waters reflection is the main theme in artists works.

While Monet worked continuously to improve his technique and searching the new, he never attempted to encourage them theoretically.

So many people agree that his paintings have a poetic language.

He just pictured the reality, according to his own point of view.

He filtered his perceptions of reality and then created his own.

How lucky we are that he shared it with the whole world.

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