From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Claude Monet also known as
Oscar-Claude Monet or
Claude Oscar Monet (
November 14,
1840 –
December 5,
1926) 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. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting
Impression, Sunrise.
