Oscar-Claude Monet (French 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) - TopicsExpress



          

Oscar-Claude Monet (French 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movements philosophy of expressing ones 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. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet
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