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Claude Monet - Walk (Road of the Farm Saint-Siméon)

Walk (Road of the Farm Saint-Siméon) (1864)

Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)
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Claude Monet

Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of impressionist 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 before nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant, exhibited in the 1874 ("exhibition of rejects") initiated by Monet and his associates 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.

His 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 passing of the seasons. Among the best known examples are his series of haystacks (1890–91), paintings of the Rouen Cathedral (1894) and the paintings of water lilies in his garden in Giverny that occupied him continuously for the last 20 years of his life.

Frequently exhibited and successful during his lifetime, his 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 burgeoning groups of artists.

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Rouen Cathedral, West Façade (1894)

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The Windmill on the Onbekende Gracht, Amsterdam

The Windmill on the Onbekende Gracht, Amsterdam (1874)

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Le Bassin des Nympheas

Le Bassin des Nympheas (1904)

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The Seine at Vétheuil

The Seine at Vétheuil (1880)

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Der Koch (Le Père Paul) Monsieur Paul

Der Koch (Le Père Paul) Monsieur Paul (1882)

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Poplars on the Epte

Poplars on the Epte (1891)

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The Beach at Honfleur

The Beach at Honfleur (1864-1866)

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Weeping Willow

Weeping Willow (1918–19)

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Water Lilies

Water Lilies (1916-1919)

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Boats on the Beach at Étretat

Boats on the Beach at Étretat (1885)

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Les Rochers de Belle-Ile

Les Rochers de Belle-Ile

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