Monet

Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) Monet was the founder of the French Impressionist movement and the most consistant and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. Monet was born in Paris, France in 1840. On 1 April 1851, Monet entered Le Havre secondary school of the arts, there he met fellow artist Eugene Boudin who became his mentor and taught him to use oil paints. Boudin taught Monet 'en-plein air' (outdoor) techniques for painting. Disillusioned with the traditional art taught at art schools, in 1862 Monet became a student of Charles Gleyre in Paris, where he met Pierre Renoir Together they shared new approaches to art, painting the effects of light en plain air with broken color and rapid brushstrokes, in what later came to be known as Impressionism.

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