Claude Monet
Oscar-Claude Monet was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement’s philosophy of expressing one’s perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. Wikipedia
Born: November 14, 1840, Rue Laffitte, Paris, France
Died: December 5, 1926, Giverny, France
On view: Musée d’Orsay, National Gallery of Art, MORE
Periods: Impressionism, Modern art, Realism
Spouse: Alice Hoschedé (m. 1892–1911), Camille Doncieux (m. 1870–1879)
Children: Jean Monet, Michel Monet
Quotes
- Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
- I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
- The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.
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twocats83: Never realised his paintings were so big. I’ve seen them in books, but to see them next to him is quite impressive.
el_chalupa: Huh. Black armband. I wonder who he was mourning at the time?
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