Claude monet

Monet, Claude .mQneI [1840-1926] French painter. He was a pioneer of Impressionism and a lifelong exponent of its ideals; his painting Impression, Sunrise 1872 gave the movement its name. In the 1870s he began painting the same subjects at different times of day to explore the ever-changing effects of light on colour and form; the Haystacks and Rouen Cathedral series followed in the 1890s, and from 1899 he painted a series of Water Lilies in the garden of his house at Giverny, Normandy (now a museum).
He spent his youth at Le Havre, where he was diverted from boyish caricature to open-air landscape painting by the encouragement of Boudin. Boudin and Jongkind, with whom Monet became friendly 1860, had taught him much about atmosphere before he went 1862 to Gleyre's studio in Paris, where he met Renoir, Sisley and Bazille. He painted with them in the forest of Fontainebleau and until 1870 was engaged in perfecting a new approach to which the realism of Courbet and the direct method of ...