Claude Monet 'Ice on Seine at Bougival, 1867-8' Canvas Art,26x32
This method of stretching and preparing a canvas allows for a frameless presentation of the finished painting. Gallery wrap is a method of stretching an artist's canvas so that the canvas wraps around the sides and is secured a hidden, wooden frame. Monet himself was enchanted by the vitality of outdoor settings as shown in many of his works. 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.