A Delightful Impression

Claude Monet is the founder of the Impressionist movement.
The contribution of Monet to art as a whole is immense. An inspired, original and prolific artist who defined a new direction for art in the 19th century, one opposing the rules and restrictions of Academic art, making way for a new way of seeing. And indeed he had a extraordinary gift for visual painting.
Cezanne supposedly said of him, "Monet is just an eye - but God, what an eye!"
 In my opinion the works of Monet ushered a new era in the development of art, one that is  not restricted in its attempts to imitate nature but demonstrates how different people experience and see reality and add new meaning and emotional nuances in their representations of it.