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| Claude Monet (1840–1926) | ||||||||||
| The French painter Claude Monet is considered the leader of the Impressionist movement, the name itself being derived from his 1872 painting, Impression, soleil levant. Born at Paris, Monet's family moved to Le Havre in 1845, and he made a name for himself there as a caricaturist. He met the landscape painter, and an important, early influence, Eugène Boudin, during a caricature exhibition, who introduced him to outdoor painting. Monet moved to Paris in 1859 to study art, and there, he was influenced by the works of Delacroix, Corot, and Daubigny. He befriended Pisarro, and frequented the Brasserie des Martyrs, where Courbet and other realists gathered. After a period of military service, Monet joined the studio of Charles Gleyre in 1862, and he met the artists, Renoir, Bazille, and Sisley, who were to become the central figures of the Impressionist circle. He sought refuge with Pisarro at London during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870–71, and there, he studied the works of Turner and Constable, and executed a number of works there. He moved to Argenteuil in 1871, where he painted a number of his most famous works. Moving to Giverny in 1883, he finally began to prosper financially. It is during this period that Monet painted his best known works, being his series of repeated studies of designs from his earlier works, painted during various times of the day to capture the variations in colour and light. He then began to focus his attention on his famous water garden that he had created at Giverny. It served as the theme for his series, Water lilies, begun in 1899, and was to dominate his work completely. Monet continued to paint until his death, which occurred at his beloved Giverny. | ||||||||||
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