Interesting Facts About Claude Monet

Claude Monet was the most remarkable artist related to impressionism from France. He was born on November 14th in 1840 and became the symbol of this amazing genre of art because his painting was the first one to be characterized this way.

Claude Monet had an extremely interesting life and rather long life to describe. Here are the most bright facts about this amazingly gifted painter.

The impressionism definition was first outlined by the critics after Claude Monet represented his today famous painting named Impression, Soleil Levant in 1874 while the very first independent art show was held. The haven of Le Havre was the one painted in it using quite loose brush strokes which produced the effect of the painting being rather blurry. However it didn’t become the best example of impressionism as his the most popular Water Lilies dated 1906 feature the impressionism manner much more intense despite the fact that his eyes could see worse that time.

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