As the leading French Impressionist landscape painter, Claude Monet's work featured in the groundbreaking Impressionist exhibition of 1874 where the title of one of his paintings led to the name of the highly influential movement. This book describes Monet's technique, the materials he used, his impact on his contemporaries and his successive generations of artists, and his signature style: painting en plein air to showcase a single subject in different lighting conditions, whether it be trees, haystacks, or the water lily ponds in his garden at Giverny.