| Claude Monet (French pronunciation: [klod m?n?]), born Oscar Claude Monet (14 November 1840 - 5 December 1926)[1] was 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.[2] The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant). (Wikipedia) |
