Splendor in the sun
Claude Monet's Rouen Cathedral, Full Sunlight



Dress your walls in the avant-garde! French Impressionist painter Claude Monet loves light. His multiple studies of specific scenes, such as Rouen Cathedral, here in full sunlight, reveal how a subject's color changes as light conditions vary. Monet works quickly to capture an impression of what his eye beholds, without worrying about completely representing the object being painted. As a result, he sometimes is criticized for creating paintings that look unfinished.