Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face. ... http://www.squidoo.com/claude-monet Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:52:07 -0600 FeedCreator 1.7.2 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:56:19 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/claude-monet Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face. - Claude Monet French painter Claude Monet was the seminal figure in the development of impressionism style of painting, an important  movement in the development of modern art. Also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet ( born November 14, 1840 – died December 5, 1926) was a father of French impressionist painting, and the most uniform and productive practitioner of the movement's doctrine of conveying one's perceptions before nature, particularly as applied to plein air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is traced from the title of the artist's own painting Impression, Sunrise.    Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:56:19 -0600