Claude Monet is most renowned for his series of paintings ... with the sky and the clouds making up most of the background. The bright and vivid colors are applied in spontaneous, animated ...

This shows a woman dressed in a lavish Japanese kimono, bright red in colour with patterns of golden, blue, and more, and in the background ... and full of energy. Claude Monet, the master painter ...

For his 1885 canvas Waves at the Manneporte (pictured at left)—bursting with red, blue, violet, yellow and green—Claude Monet had to walk along several beaches and through a long dark tunnel ...