Horloge Carrée Impression, Sunrise, Claude Monet

Oscar-Claude Monet (14 novembre 1840 - 5 décembre 1926) était un painter français, un founder of French Impresonist painting and the most consistance and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applito painting sur la place air landscape. Le terme "Impresonism" est derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris. Monet's ambition of documentmenting the French countryside led him to adopt a method of painting the same scene many times in order to captation the chanting of light and the greving of the seasons. From 1883, Monet lived in Giverny, where the purchased a house and property and began a fixe landscaping project which included lily ponds that would become the subjects of his best-known works. En 1899, le début de la vie des eaux a commencé, first in vertical views with a Japanese bridge as a central feature and later in the series of Large-scale paintings that was to occupy him continuously for the next 20 years of his life. Quote:Wikipédia