To me the motif itself is an insignificant factor; what I w… - Claude Monet

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To me the motif itself is an insignificant factor; what I want to reproduce is what lies between the motif and me.. .Other painters paint a bridge, a house, a boat.. .I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.

Claude Monet

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Oscar-Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 – December 5, 1926) was a French painter, and a leading artist in the French Impressionist art movement. Impressionism expresses one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" was derived from the title of Monet's painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise) which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris.

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Alternative Names: Monet • Klod Mone • Claude-Oscar Monet • Cl. Monet • Oscar Claude Monet • monet claude • claude oscar monet • monet c. • Claude Jean Monet • Claude Oscar Monet • C. Monet • Oscar-Claude Monet

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