Artistic genius Claude Monet (1840 – 1925) founded and led the Impressionist Movement, applying non-traditional uses of color and light and how they affect each other based on his own observations. Like a prism, his artwork breaks color into individual elements, and completely lacks black and gray tones. He painted his beloved French coastline in “Chemin dan les Bles a Pourville,” whose absence of human figures expresses his direct relationship with nature.