Known as the founding father of the Impressionist movement, the artist Claude Monet revolutionized both the use of color and the portrayal of nature. He often reflected on the richness of the natural world, and showed how a haystack or a pond could be eternally new. This exhibition in Lille displays two Monet paintings of the small village of Vétheuil, just outside of Paris; financial problems forced the painter and his family to move there in 1878. The first painting is La Débâcle, painted in the 1880s, and the second is Vétheuil, le matin, painted 20 years later. To complete the show, the museum brought in four important loans from the Musée d’Orsay. The exhibition also showcases multiple works by the American painter Joan Mitchell, an Abstract-Expressionist who bought a two-acre estate in Vétheuil in 1967, and lived there until her death, in 1992. —Isabella Carter