MONET, ClaudeImpression, Sunrise1873Oil on canvas, 48 x 63 cmMusée Marmottan Monet, Paris

MONET, ClaudeImpression, Sunrise (detail)1873Oil on canvas, 48 x 63 cmMusée Marmottan Monet, Paris

MONET, ClaudeImpression, Sunrise (detail)1873Oil on canvas, 48 x 63 cmMusée Marmottan Monet, Paris

MONET, ClaudeImpression, Sunrise (detail)1873Oil on canvas, 48 x 63 cmMusée Marmottan Monet, Paris

MONET, Claude

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MONET, ClaudeThe Luncheon (Monet's Garden at Argenteuil)1873Oil on canvas, 160 x 201 cmMusée d'Orsay, Paris

MONET, ClaudeThe Luncheon (Monet's Garden at Argenteuil) (detail)1873Oil on canvas, 160 x 201 cmMusée d'Orsay, Paris

MONET, ClaudeThe Luncheon (Monet's Garden at Argenteuil) (detail)1873Oil on canvas, 160 x 201 cmMusée d'Orsay, Paris

MONET, ClaudeThe Luncheon (Monet's Garden at Argenteuil) (detail)1873Oil on canvas, 160 x 201 cmMusée d'Orsay, Paris

MONET, ClaudeThe Luncheon (Monet's Garden at Argenteuil) (detail)1873Oil on canvas, 160 x 201 cmMusée d'Orsay, Paris

MONET, ClaudeThe Luncheon (Monet's Garden at Argenteuil) (detail)1873Oil on canvas, 160 x 201 cmMusée d'Orsay, Paris

MONET, ClaudeCamille Monet on a Garden Bench1873Oil on canvas, 61 x 80 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

MONET, ClaudeCamille Monet on a Garden Bench (detail)1873Oil on canvas, 61 x 80 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

MONET, ClaudeCamille Monet on a Garden Bench (detail)1873Oil on canvas, 61 x 80 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

MONET, ClaudeCamille Monet on a Garden Bench (detail)1873Oil on canvas, 61 x 80 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

MONET, ClaudeCamille Monet on a Garden Bench (detail)1873Oil on canvas, 61 x 80 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

MONET, ClaudeWoman in the Garden1866Oil on canvas, 82 x 101 cmThe Hermitage, St. Petersburg

MONET, ClaudeWoman in the Garden (detail)1866Oil on canvas, 82 x 101 cmThe Hermitage, St. Petersburg

MONET, ClaudeWoman in the Garden (detail)1866Oil on canvas, 82 x 101 cmThe Hermitage, St. Petersburg

MONET, ClaudeWoman in the Garden (detail)1866Oil on canvas, 82 x 101 cmThe Hermitage, St. Petersburg

MONET, ClaudeSpringtime (The Reader )1872Oil on canvas, 50 x 65,5 cmWalters Art Museum, Baltimore

MONET, ClaudeSpringtime (The Reader ) (detail)1872Oil on canvas, 50 x 65,5 cmWalters Art Museum, Baltimore

MONET, ClaudeSpringtime (The Reader ) (detail)1872Oil on canvas, 50 x 65,5 cmWalters Art Museum, Baltimore

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Oscar Claude Monet, French painter, is generally considered to be the most outstanding figure among Impressionists.

Monet was using the short brush strokes, which often looked rather like spots of paint, not lines. For this reason his paintings seemed to some people messy and unfinished. Often, when you

looked at his painting from a short distance you couldn't see what it was, but if you stepped away you could see a beautiful scene.

This was a completely new way of painting that became the mark of Impressionism. Monet was enormously prolific and many major galleries have examples of his work. Through his life Monet

painted about 2500 paintings.

For many years Monet's and other Impressionists' paintings were not understood and rejected by people of that time. But finally by the end of century the new way of painting became liked and popular. Impressionism enriched art, and taught people to be open and ready to welcome and

enjoy the new styles.

Claude Monet, as the leader of Impressionists, made this success possible in the big part. Without Claude Monet art would probably never become so interesting, and full of light, and beau

MONET, ClaudeImpression, Sunrise1873Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris

In France, public and critics both had a great deal of fun at the expense of the independent exhibitions organized in Paris. It was a journalist, Alfred

Leroy, who coined the nickname "Impressionist," having used the word in his famous satirical article in Charivari on April 25, 1874.

The trigger had been a work that Monet had painted in Le Havre two years earlier and that was listed in the catalog as Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant). As early as 1877, the initially pejorative term was adopted by

the artists themselves and used as a rallying cry.