Claude Monet
1840–1926
Courtesy National Gallery, London 2003. Photo:Tate
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In the Studio: Claude Monet and Mark Rothko
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Oscar-Claude Monet (; 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. In 1899, he began painting the water lilies, 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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Bernard Meninsky Notebook
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Henry Scott Tuke Diary of Henry Scott Tuke
12 March 1899–31 December 1905
Barbara Ker-Seymer Photograph album
September 1935–8
Film and audio
Podcast
Walks of art: Dolly Alderton on Monet and the Thames
The writer and journalist wanders along the river and explores its hidden depths
TateShots
TateShots: Three Champions For Turner Monet Twombly
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Claude Monet and Wu Bin: by Hao Liang
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'I find London lovelier to paint each day': Claude Monet in London
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Complementary colours
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Impressionism
Impressionism developed in France in the nineteenth century and is based on the practice of painting out of doors and ...
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Bringing together five Claude Monet water-lily paintings
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