Claude Monet was the best-known painter of the French Impressionist Era. He was particularly remembered for his water garden painting. The "Terrace at Sainte- Adresse" was painted in the summer of 1867 in the family house. He painted this view from one of the upstairs rooms. This painting made me think of happiness and serenity. The first thing that "Terrace at Sainte-Adresse" spotted my eye was Jeanne Marguerite Lecadre's white dress. Her white dress looks luminous among the red geraniums looking out toward the Atlantic Ocean. Jeanne Marguerite Leca

These portrait shapes on the horizon are sharply geometric and furnishing to the oriental pastel tone of the painting. While Monet's treatment of the sky is flat, the sea show signs of his fascination with its every changing color and a fascination that emerges strongly about his family. Monet's idea for this painting was to capture reality and analyze the ever-changing nature of light and color. The freedom of his brushwork and the paint that he used which is oil on canvas was audacious use of color in his work was to record his surroundings faithfully from Paris. Monet's work was very detailed and dreamy. The beauty of "Terrace at Sainte-Adresse" was based on the gardens and the ocean front view that he created at Giverny in northeastern France.

Many boats and ships can be seen in the background. When Monet painted a sea populated with boats, he was working in a well-established marine tradition. By this time he would have known Courbet's marines, and those whistlers too, in

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