Imagine you are in a room, blindfolded. You don't know how you got there, but you are. A mysterious and unknown force removes your blindfold only to reveal that the wall in front of you is white as snow. You turn left, right and back, the same. Then, suddenly, as you stand in the midst of such vastness, the unknown force begins to create a vortex of nature's color, green. Variations of green, pale blue, touches of yellow, brown and purple create a harmonious scene that your eyes immediately fill with. You notice that you are no longer standing on a white floor, but rather on a green deck formed with oil paint in long, horizontal and vertical stripes with the perfect amount of shades and tones. What a glory, you are no longer on the blank canvas. You look down and, lo and behold, you are standing above a delicately crafted pond with water lilies floating peacefully around it. Tall grass lines the bank and willows hover august above it all. The force then whispers in your ear satisfying you with the knowledge that you are in an impressionist painting, The Water Lily Pond by Oscar-Claude Monet. Oscar-Claude Monet, or simply Monet, was and still is one of the most famous painters in the world. He was involved in the Impressionist era in France and his subjects mainly revolved around landscapes. The water lily pond is but one of his many magnificent works. Also, during this era, another great artist, Edgar Degas, was born. Degas was also an impressionist, although his subjects were different from Monet's. Degas's attention was paid to people, especially ballerinas. Although the two Impressionists share similar painting techniques and their victory in the same era, the differences between them are clearly evident.Osca...... middle of paper......The artwork is more of a simple picture painted on a canvas. It simply requires imagination and a willingness to engage in experimentation. Movements such as Impressionism, Surrealism, Baroque and Neoclassicism encompass this and what their creators wish to reflect. The Impressionists of the 1800s sought to achieve the depiction of life in a way in which the use of pastels reigned in creating scenes of harmony, truth and delicacy, both in nature and in human beings. Oscar-Claude Monet and Edgar Degas triumphed in this. Thanks to the variety of subjects present in their masterpieces, they demonstrated that art can derive from the same movement and understand what is represented despite the differences. It's like snowflakes, they are cold, made up of crystalline structures and of course they are snow. However, no two snowflakes are the same, but their matter is.