This book is about the life and work of Claude Monet, a French landscape painter, one of the founders of impressionism. From his painting "Impression, soleil levant" ("Impression. Rising Sun"), unfriendly met by contemporaries, began the history of a whole direction in art. The fluttery aerial images of Monet's paintings are permeated with a love of life and are designed to prolong the fleetingness of delight, to stop the moment.