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Claude Monet

Monet {{Circa|1899}} Oscar-Claude Monet (, ; ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionism painting 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, soleil levant'', which was first exhibited in the so-called "exhibition of rejects" of 1874–an exhibition initiated by Monet and like-minded artists as an alternative to the Salon.

Monet was raised in Le Havre, Normandy, and became interested in the outdoors and drawing from an early age. Although his mother, Louise-Justine Aubrée Monet, supported his ambitions to be a painter, his father, Claude-Adolphe, disapproved and wanted him to pursue a career in business. He was very close to his mother, but she died in January 1857 when he was sixteen years old, and he was sent to live with his childless, widowed but wealthy aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre. He went on to study at the Académie Suisse, and under the academic history painter Charles Gleyre, where he was a classmate of Auguste Renoir. His early works include landscapes, seascapes, and portraits, but attracted little attention. A key early influence was Eugène Boudin, who introduced him to the concept of ''plein air'' painting. From 1883, Monet lived in Giverny, also in northern France, where he purchased a house and property and began a vast landscaping project, including a water-lily pond.

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.

Frequently exhibited and successful during his lifetime, Monet's fame and popularity soared in the second half of the 20th century when he became one of the world's most famous painters and a source of inspiration for a burgeoning group of artists. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Monet by Crespelle, Jean-Paul

    Published 1988
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    Monet by Milner, Frank

    Published 2002
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    Monet by Fourny-Dargere, Sophie

    Published 1992
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    Monet by House, John

    Published 1991
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    Monet by Rachman, Carla

    Published 1997
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    Claude Monet life and work by Zeidler, Birgit

    Published 2005
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    Monet by Anderson, Janice

    Published 2003
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    The essential Claude Monet by Morris, Catherine

    Published 1999
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    Claude Monet, 1840-1926 by Heinrich, Christoph

    Published 2007
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    Monet impressions by Wildenstein, Daniel

    Published 1982
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    Claude Monet, observation and reflection by Isaacson, Joel

    Published 1978
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