Biography
Oscar-Claude Monet (UK: , US: , French: [klod mɔnɛ]; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter, 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, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris.
Monet's ambition of documenting the French countryside led him to adopt a method of painting the same scene many times in order to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons. From 1883, Monet lived in Giverny, where he purchased a house and property and began a vast landscaping project which included lily ponds that would become the subjects of his best-known works. He began painting the water lilies in 1899, first in vertical views with a Japanese bridge as a central feature and later in the series of large-scale paintings that was to occupy him continuously for the next 20 years of his life.
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Read full Wikipedia entryArtworks
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Claude Monet Poplars on the Epte
1891 -
Claude Monet Woman Seated on a Bench
c.1874 -
Claude Monet The Seine at Port-Villez
1894
Artist as subject
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John Singer Sargent Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood
?1885 -
Bernard Meninsky Notebook
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Bernard Meninsky Manuscript of Meninsky’s article ‘The appreciation of drawing’
[1948] -
Barbara Ker-Seymer Photograph album
September 1935–8 -
Henry Scott Tuke Diary of Henry Scott Tuke
12 March 1899–31 December 1905
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Walks of art: Dolly Alderton on Turner, Monet and the Thames
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Claude Monet and Wu Bin
Artist Hao Liang responds to Monet's letters to his wife Alice, seeing in them a link to a much longer …
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'I find London lovelier to paint each day': Claude Monet in London
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Impressionism
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