
Claude Monet (
French pronounced [klod mɔnɛ]) also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (
November 14,
1840 –
December 5,
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.
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