Claude Monet
French Painter & Founder of Impressionist Painting
Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840 - 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of
impressionist
painting who
is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it.
During
his long
career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of impressionism's philosophy
of expressing
one's
perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term
"Impressionism" is
derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant, exhibited in 1874 (the "exhibition of
rejects")
initiated by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon.
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