Carte Postale Cliffs at Etracétate 1885 par Claude Monet

Oscar-Claude Monet (UK: /ˈmneɒ/, US: /ʊˈneɪ, madeˈ-/, French: [dmning]; 18 novembre 1840 - 5 december 1926) ce qui a French painter and founder impressiof painist ting who is as key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it.[1] During his long career, ce que la Most and prolific practitioner of impressionism's philosophy of expressing's perceptions before nature, especias appto air (outdoor) landscape painting.[2] The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Soleil levant, exhibited in the 1874 ("exhibition of rejects") initiated par Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon. Monet quelque chose de raised à Le Havre, Norandy, et camé dedans dans les outdoors et drawing from an early age. Although his mother, Louise-Justine Aubrée Monet, support d'his to be a painter, his father, Claude-Adolphe, disapproved and wanted hted in to pursue a career in business. Hé, very close to his mother, but she died, en janvier 1857, when was sixteen years, et hé, ce qui est présent to live with his childless, widowed but wealthy aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre. Went on to study at the Académie Suisse, and under the academic history painter Charles Gleyre, where where la classmate of Auguste Renoir. His early works include landscapes, seascapes, et portraits, but attracted little attention. A key early influence ce qu'Eugène Boudin oms introduced him to the concept of plein air painting. From 1883, Monet lived in Giverny, c'est-à-dire dans le nord de France, where he purchased a house and property and began a vast landscaping project, including a water-lily pond. Monet's ambition to document the French countryside led to a method of painting the solis scene many times so as to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons. Among the best-example are his series of haystacks (1890-91), paintings of the Rouen Cathedral (1894), et les paintings of water lilies in his garden in Giverny toccupied him continuously for the last 20 years of hilife. Frequently exhibited and successful during his lifetime, Monet's fame and popularity soared in the second aif of the 20th century when becams camcams one of the world's most famous painters and a source of inspiration for burgeoning groups of artists. When Durand-Ruel's previous support of Monet and his peers began to decline, Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, et Berthe Morisot exhibited their work independently; they did so under the name the Anonymous society of Painters, Sculptors and Engravers for which Monet ce qu'a leading in its formation.[12][15] Eh bien, quoi qu'il arrive aux Style and subject matter of his slightly older contemporains, Pissarro et Édouard Manet.[41] The chose to avoid association with any or movement, were unified in their independence from the Salon and rejection of the prevailing academicism.[12][42] Monet gained a reputation as the foremost landscape painter of the group.[16] At the first exhibition, in 187 4, Monet displayed, among others, impression, Sunrise, The Luncheon and Boulevard des capouilles [43] The art critic Louis Leroy wa hostile. La notice of impression, sunrise (1872), a hazy depiction of Le Havre port and stylistic detour, coined the term "Impressionism". Institutions critics et the public derided the group, with the term initially be g ironic and denoting the painting as unfinished.[15][42] More progressive critics praised the depiction of life—Louis Edmond Duranty called their style a "révolution in painting" [42] regret ted inspiring the name, as he eh quelved that they were a group "whose majority had nothing impressionist" [14] The total attendance is estimated at 3500 Monet priced impression : Sunrise at 1000 francs but failed to sell.[44][45] 46] L'exhibition de ce qui est open to anyone prepared to pay 60 francs and gave artists the opportunity to show their work without the interférence of a jury.[44][45][46] Another exhibition de ce qui est héros en 1876, again to the salon. Monet Played 18 paintings, including The Beach at Sainte-adresse which showcased multiple impressionist characteristics.[28][47] For the third exhibition, on 5 avril 1877, he selected seven paintings from the dozen he had made of Gare Saint-Lazare in the past three months, the first time he had "synced as many paintings of the même site, carefully coordinating their scenes and temporalities" [48] The paintings were well received by critics, who especially praised the capture al and departures of the trains [48] By the fourth exhibition his involvement was by means of negotiation on Caillebotte's part.[15] His last time exhibiting with the impressionists was in 1882-four years before the final impressionist exhibition.[49] [50] Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Morisot, Cézanne et Sisley proceeded to expérience