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Claude Monet French painter born in Paris, France, Nov. 14, 1840 and died in Giverny, Dec. 5, 1926. A founder of the school of impressionism, he remained faithful to its principles throughout his long and prolific career. Monet opened a new road to landscape painting by working outdoors and applying scientific principles deduced from the laws of optics. He strove to capture fleeting visual impressions and the effects of light and air. On close inspection, an area of green foliage in a Monet canvas is found to be composed of multicolored brush strokes, but seen from a distance the freshness of the greenery appears as in nature. The painter broke down tones in the way that a prism disperses a beam of light; the eye of the beholder blends the colors.
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