'Terrace At The Seaside' by Claude Monet

Monet painted this landscape in 1866 and he tries to show the viewer

"the border line between a free realism and Impressionism” as said by
William C. Seitz. He used for this painting like nearly all of his other
painting, Oil on a canvas. When painting the sea the brush strokes are
free and gives a calming feeling to the sea. The sea is also flatly painted
as opposed the complicated cloud filled skies of his other works.
Monet was influenced by his surroundings in many of his paintings
and was also influenced by his uncle, M. Lecardre, who was a successful
ship chandler. I find this painting to be very contrasting, with the flatly
painted skies and green-blue seas, but then in the foreground has
brightly coloured flowers gardens and blossoms.