... late 19th and early 20th centuries was Impressionism. Among the many talented Impressionist artists was Claude Monet. Claude Monet was the most representative of the Impressionists. Claude Monet was born on November 14th, 1840. He lived with his mother, Louise Monet, his father, Adolphe Monet, his older brother and his aunt, Madame Lecadre. Monet was born in France, however, when he was 5 years old, his family moved ... moved to Giverny, where his own studio was built. There, Monet worked on twelve large murals until he became blind sighted. He died later that year of lung cancer in his h...

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... and Neo-expressionism. J.M. W. Turner achieved the most radical pictorial vision of any Romantic artist. Beginning with landscapes reminiscent of the 17th -century French painter Claude Lorrain, he became, in such later works as, "Snow Storm: Steam Boat Off a Harbour's Mouth", (1842), almost entirely concerned with atmospheric effects ... today consider the essence of Turner's genius. They have become an inspiration to Abstract Expressionists. For it was Turner, even more than Monet, who anticipated the reliance of these painters on colour, texture, and the actual process of painting in ...

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