The document discusses Claude Monet and his role in the Impressionist movement. It provides background on Monet's artistic philosophy and approach, including his emphasis on capturing transient visual impressions painted directly from nature using broken color. Examples of several of Monet's prominent landscape and water lily paintings are presented and analyzed in relation to Impressionism. The challenges the reader to consider which two works are most representative of Monet's style and if his paintings reinforce or contradict their understanding of Impressionism.