The Young Ladies of Giverny, Sun Effect

As a young artist in Paris Monet he was particularly impressed with the work of Courbet and Manet. During the 1860s he painted large-scale, ambitious works in an effort to attain fame at the Salon. Even at this early stage Monet wished to produce a monumental art equal to anything in the museums. These works differed from the conventional painting of his time in that he deliberately avoided the us…