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Artist Profile: Claude Monet

By Shelley Esaak, About.com

Claude Monet Water Lillies

Water Lillies (1906 The Art Institute of Chicago);

Scan © Mark Harden, used with permission
Movement, Style, School or Type of Art:

Impressionism

Date and Place of Birth:

November 14, 1840, Paris, France

Life:

Claude Monet was a founder and leader of the Impressionists (the group took their name from one of his paintings "Impression Sunrise"). Of the group, Monet took the Impressionistic theories of broken color and interplay of light the farthest, sometimes painting whole series of the exact same view under different conditions of light and weather.

Important Works:

    Impression Sunrise (1872)
    Wheatstacks (End of Summer) (1891)
    The Rouen Cathedral series (1892-1894)
    Water Lilies (1906)

Date and Place of Death:

December 5, 1926, Giverny, France

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