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1 day ago · Claude Monet - Wikipedia. Oscar-Claude Monet ( UK: / ˈmɒneɪ /, US: / moʊˈneɪ, məˈ -/, French: [klod mɔnɛ]; 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. [1] .
11 hours ago · Known as the father of Impressionism, Claude Monet’s loose and fleeting style of painting continues to resonate today. Gardens by the Bay is bringing is life and work to vivid life at a new ...
3 days ago · In Our Time - Monet in England. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why the French impressionist Claude Monet painted the foggy Thames in central London more often than water lilies, haystacks or ...
11 hours ago · After the Salon des Refusés, Manet acquired a degree of frisky cachet, and the group that met regularly at the Café Guerbois included Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Camille ...
1 day ago · At the age of 81, it looked like Claude Monet was all washed up. His eyesight was dimming, failing—the worst possible calamity for a painter. But he was working on a project—and he had to finish it. Beginning at the age of seventy, cataracts had slowly begun to thicken over his eyes.
3 days ago · Little did Claude Monet know when he painted ‘Impression, Sunrise’ that his work would inspire the naming of a whole new movement in art. One of his most famous works, this oil on canvas painting was first exhibited in April 1874. Le Havre in Northwest France was Monet’s hometown and during 1872 he visited the area regularly.
3 days ago · Oscar-Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840. While his artistic portfolio over the years is indeed impressive, Monet is arguably just as famous for being the man who founded the Impressionist style of painting. To this very day, he is one of the most well-known painters in the world and his works continue to influence many modern artists.
