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"Claude Monet." Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition (2010): 1. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 10 Nov. 2010. This article is a short biography of Claude Monet as an artist. The biography includes how he is the founder of Impressionism. Also it includes who inspired monet and how he got into art. It goes on to describe his works throughout his lifetime.

Spate, Virginia. Claude Monet: Life and Work. New York: Rizzoli, 1992. Print. Monet concieved his paintings as the expression of his unique perceptions-they would be the expression of what he personally would have felt. This book goes through three "times" of Monet's life. From there, it talks both about the historical aspects of the time and the inspirations Monet has and what he was painting.

Stuckey, Charles F. "Claude Monet: Impressionism's leading light." USA Today Magazine 124.2606 (1995): 36. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. This article talks about the history of the Impressionism Movement and more specifically, Claude Monet. It goes on to describe the movements unique techniques and how it went from childish stokes to opening to realms of abstract painting. From there, it tells the readers of the many great acheivements Monet contribited to Impressionism and to art in general.

Tucker, Paul Hayes. Claude Monet: Life and Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. Print. This bibliography goes through the life of Claude Monet and the kinds of paintings he painted as he grew older, how he went from the start of impressionism to series paintings and his Giverny Gardens. The author goes on to say that Monet's achievement is "as being almost exclusively concerned with air, light, and particular moments in time rendered spontaneously in heightened color and broken brushwork."

Jie, Chang. "Quasi-scientific Approaches Made by Impressionist Painters (Claude Monet) and Literary Naturalists (Emile Zola)." Review of European Studies 1.2 (2009): 133-137. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 7 Nov. 2010. This article compares literary Naturalists and Impressionistic painters by Quasi-scientific research. The author first puts Naturalism and Impressionism into the landscape of Positivistic cultural movement in the mid 19century. In particular, it tells the readers about the different themes of impressionism and the research behind them, which included the mention of Claude Monet. Also, it talks about the tone and influence behind certain works of both the literary and artistic aspect.

Brettell, Richard R. Impression: Painting Quickly in France, 1860-1890. Williamstown, MA: Yale University Press, 2000. Print. This book holds a lot of information about the Impressionist Movement. The introduction defines what an "impression" is and how it came to name one of the most know art movements. It then goes on to give a brief history about the movement as a whole. After that, each chapter recognizes a famous impressionist painter, like Monet. The chapter about Monet goes into detail about his paintings and how he helped develope the Impressionists.

MacNamidhe, Margaret. "Impression: Painting Quickly in France 1860-1890 (review)." Nineteenth Century French Studies 31.3-4 (2003), 352-354. This article by Margret MacNamidhe reviews the style of Impression paintings. In particular, they look at the quickness of the brush and analyize it. For example, the author commented how painstakingly it took Monet to get the right atmospheric shades without blending the wrong colors together. She continued to explain how, through the ages of Monet's paintings, he developed this particular technique and one could notice with the crusting up of the paint in later works.

Tucker, Paul. "The First Impressionist Exhibition and Monet's Impression, Sunrise:A Tale of Timing,Commerce and Patriotism." Art History 7.4 (1984): 465-476. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. This article focuses on the first Impressionist Exhibition, which was opened with the help of the founders of Impressionism. This exhibition was the first large-scale independent art show in Paris. The article then goes into Monet and Monet's artwork. They discribe some of Monet's paintings and the inspirational feelings he had. Also, the author gives some possible insite of why Monet's paintings appealed to the public.

www.impressionism.info. Impressionism, 2005. Web. 7 Nov. 2010. This site talks about the basics of Impressionist art and the movement. It tells you the origin of where the name impreesionism came from and all about the subjects the artists paints about and the techniques they use. In addition, the site lists "the masters" of the art movement and the numerous paintings they painted. Lastly, it gives a list of a few books about the art movement and of the artists.

MacTaggart, John. "Impressionism." ArtFactory, 2010. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. This work starts off by stating when and how the Impressionist Movement was found. It then goes into what the goals of the Impressionists were and how they sought to complete these goals. For example, to catch a particular landscape scene, Impressionists would paint until the colors changed, and then return another day when the colors were the same. It also talks about the various influences of the impressionists and gives many painting examples of the movement.