Claude Monet

Although his early views of Normandy’s ports and beaches depicted light in the fractured manner that Monet was to perfect later in his career, this inland landscape of the same period is greatly simplified, its effects flattened and almost schematic. Monet used choppy, broad strokes of color and juxtaposed warm browns and greens against the blue of the sky, thus recalling the boldly painted landscapes of earlier artists like Courbet.