Biographical Information Claude Oscar Monet was born in Paris on November 14, 1840. The son of a successful tradesman, Monet grew up in the town of Le Havre located on the Normandy coast. He showed artistic talent as a teenager, drawing caricatures of local personalities, and by the age of fifteen he was receiving commission for his work. Monet's formal training began in 1859 at the ... Arts, the institution that set the standards for French painting and organized the Salon (Gerstein). He simplified his compositions, omitting detail to create overall effect. Instead of smoothly blending color...

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... fleeting impression of the play of light at a certain moment. The first Impressionist Exhibition was held in 1874. Prominent among the Impressionists were Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne, Eugéne Boudin, and Gustave Caillebotte. Impressionism is thought to ... was their relation to primary (yellow, blue) and complementary (green, orange, indigo, and violet) hues . This view of nature was emphasised by Monet, Pissaro and Renoir, although Delacroix had foretold Impressionism when he described the faces of two Moroccan boys as [the] yell...

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