Claude Oscar Monet was a French painter, a leading figure in the late-19th-century movement called impressionism. Monet’s paintings captured scenes of middle-class life and the ever-changing qualities of nature. His technique of applying bright, unmixed colors in quick, short strokes became a hallmark of impressionism.
Monet was the son of a successful tradesman in marine supplies. Monet grew up in Le Havre on the Normandy coast. He showed signs of artistic talent as a teenager, as he drew skillful caricatures of local people. He admired the work of many of the more adventurous artists of his day, such as Camille Corot, who was landscapists, also Charles-François Daubigny, Constant Troyon, and Henri Rousseau. Monet also admired French rea
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