Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926)

Claude Oscar Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926), pronounced [klod mon] (UK: /moU’neI, US: m’n] was a French painter and founder of Impressionism. He is also regarded as one of the key precursors to modernism. Monet was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of Impressionism’s philosophy of expressing one’s perceptions before nature, especially…