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Claude Monet
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Claude Monet was a French painter whose work gave Impressionism its name: a dismissive 1874 review of his painting Impression, Sunrise, exhibited at the first independent group show the Impressionists organized outside the official Paris Salon, coined the label the painters themselves later adopted. Monet pursued the effects of natural light and atmosphere across repeated series of the same motif painted at different times of day and season, water lilies, haystacks, Rouen Cathedral, and spent his final three decades developing an increasingly monumental garden and water-lily cycle at his home in Giverny, culminating in the large-scale Water Lilies panels now installed at the Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris.
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Active From Year Active To Year TrainingEarly caricature drawing in Le Havre; plein-air technique from Eugene Boudin; briefly at the Academie Suisse and in Charles Gleyre studio in Paris, where he met Renoir, Sisley and Bazille 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Fred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner), Cengage Learningchapter on Impressionism, section on Claude Monet
Ukiyo-e (New World Encyclopedia)
New World EncyclopediaInfluenced By: Ukiyo-e, Western influence sectionQuote, Influenced By: Ukiyo-e, Western influence section
Notable Western artists influenced included Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Gustav Klimt, who incorporated elements like perspective techniques and compositional approaches from these Japanese woodblock prints into their own work.
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