You don't just come to the city of Philadelphia without visiting the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Visited by more than 800,000 people each year, the museum houses more than 227,000 pieces and objects of art, including numerous European and American paintings, drawings, engravings and decorative objects. I visited the museum a few weeks ago with the intention of finding a piece of art that I could connect with to write an article about it. It took me a while to find the work that attracted me at first glance: The Sheltered Path, an oil painting on canvas by the artist Claude Monet. Permanently installed on the first floor of the museum in Gallery 152 (Toll Gallery) which housed a collection of works of art with the common theme: European art from 1850 to 1900, the painting attracted me with its vibrant colors and its simplistic yet meaningful beauty. . The gallery also had other paintings by the same artist as well as other artists with similar painting styles. I chose this piece to write my article because I felt I could relate to this painting because I could imagine myself being the main character of the story in the image. Claude Monet is also one of my favorite artists because I love the natural beauty of his impressionist paintings. Born on November 14, 1840 in Paris, Claude Monet is best known as the French Impressionist painter whose painting "Impression, Sunrise" (1873) launched an entire artistic movement called Impressionism which focused more on form, light and color rather than realism. A brilliant artist, he was nevertheless plagued by periods of depression and doubt. In 1873, after years of financial difficulties, one of Monet's paintings entitled "Impression, sunrise" which represented the city of ...... in the middle of a paper ...... to find, by himself, the good note. And they succeeded. Here we can see that Ajalbert was praising the Impressionist artists for embracing their individuality and abandoning conventional methods. An artist named Odilon Redon did not support the Impressionist movement as he said: “I refused to board the Impressionist ship because I found the ceiling too. weak. . . . True parasites of the object, [the Impressionists] cultivated art solely on the visual field, and in some way closed it off from what goes beyond it and from what can give light to the most humble sketches, even to shadows. of spirituality. I mean a kind of emanation which takes over our mind and escapes all analysis" in his book To Myself: Notes on Life, Art and Artists in 1986. Redon did not agree with the techniques of impressionism because he felt that they did not encompass everything. it was art.