"Claude Monet also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting." The professor points at a slideshow projecting in front. "...and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise."
I shuffled in my seat, glancing at Red who was focused on taking notes and listening in. I sighed and peered around the room with fifteen other students, most of them smiled at me but others gazed confusedly at some actress sitting in for an art class.
"In Waterlily pond, green harmony, from his first extended
