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CLAUDE MONET
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Portrait of Claude Monet, Carolus-Duran, c. 1867 |
- Oscar-Claude Monet (1840-1926) was a
French painter and founder of Impressionism who is seen as a
key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to
paint nature as he perceived it.
- During his long career,
he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of
Impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions of
nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape
painting.
- The term 'Impressionism' is derived from the title of his painting
Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), which was exhibited in 1874 at the First Impressionist Exhibition, initiated by Monet and a number of like-minded artists as an alternative to the Salon.
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Monet's ambition to document the French countryside led to a method of painting the same scene many times so as to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons. Among the best-known examples are his series of haystacks (1890–1891), paintings of Rouen Cathedral (1892–1894), and the paintings of water lilies in his garden in Giverny, which occupied him for the last 20 years of his life.
(Wikipedia)
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