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Claude Monet (1840-1926), a French landscape painter, was a leader of the impressionist movement. In fact, Monet's painting Sunrise, an impression was the source of the term "impressionism." He worked closely with Manet, Pissaro, and Renoir, each having a great influence on the others.
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Against his parents’ wishes, Claude Monet left home for Paris in 1859 to pursue a career in painting. There, he was inspired by the work of Eugène Delacroix, Charles Daubigny, and Camille Corot. He studied at the free Académie Suisse, where he met Camille Pissarro, and was a frequent patron of the Brasserie des Martyrs, a gathering place for fellow realist artists such as Gustave Courbet.
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Claude Monet suffered from failing eyesight towards the end of his life. He died in 1927, though he continued to paint until the very end. Every artist for his profilic range and quality of work will always remember Claude Monet's name with reverence.
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Camille Monet died in 1879 and Claude remarried in 1892 to Alice Hoschedé. After decades of relative poverty, the artist was completely secure financially by 1899. It was then that he began his famous series of water lily paintings at Giverny. The works themselves were revolutionary, 12 large canvases that required the artist to learn an entirely new style of painting characterized by broad, sweeping strokes. He worked on the paintings exhaustively, despite poor health and double cataracts, until his death on December 5, 1926.
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Monet was born in Paris on February 14, 1840 the son of a grocer; his parents refused to support him in a career as an artist, offering to buy him out of his military service if he would abandon the idea. This he refused to do, and by the time he was sixteen he had a local reputation as a caricaturist in his home city of Le Havre. His interest in landscape was stimulated by painters who came to Le Havre to paint the port or the beaches, particularly by Eugene Boudin. In 1859, at the age of 19, Monet went to Paris. That year he visited the Salon several times. He refused to return home or to enter the Ecole-des-Beaux-Arts, but began instead at the Atelier Suisse, where Gustave Courbet had worked and Camille Pissarro sometimes came.
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In addition to his physical ailments, Monet struggled desperately with the problems of his art. In 1920 he began work on 12 large canvases (each measuring 14 feet in width) of water lilies, which he planned to give to the state. To complete them, he fought against his own failing eyesight and against the demands of a large-scale mural art for which his own past had hardly prepared him. In effect, the task required him to learn a new kind of painting at the age of 80. The paintings are characterized by a broad, sweeping style; virtually devoid of subject matter, their vast, encompassing spaces are generated almost exclusively by color. Such color spaces were without precedent in Monet's lifetime; ... their descendants have appeared in contemporary painting only since the end of World War II.
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