Claude Monet: Water Lilies Boxed Notecard AssortmentEarly critics dismissed Claude Monets paintings as hasty sketches. But in fact Monet set himself a goal that was remarkably difficult to achieve, and the evidence testifies that he succeeded brilliantly. Monet was devoted to the pursuit and capture of lightor rather, of its effects on sky, water, and land. Painting quickly to get the impression on canvas before the sunlights angle shifted too much, he produced work characterized by flickering