Monet 2012 Calendar. Perhaps one of the most widely regarded painters of all time, Claude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term ‘Impressionism’ is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant). This Claude Monet 2012 Calendar is square in format and features 12 stunning paintings to take you through 2012 along with full calendar grids with ample room to record your own dates, appointments and anniversaries.