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Monet

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Mo·net  (m-n, mô-), Claude 1840-1926.
French painter and founder of impressionism who captured on canvas his spontaneous reaction to landscapes and outdoor events. He created several series of paintings, such as Water Lilies (1899-1925), that examine the effect of changing light and atmosphere on a subject.
Monet (French) [mɔnɛ]
n
(Biographies / Monet, Claude (1840-1926) M, French, ARTS AND CRAFTS: painter) Claude (klod). 1840-1926, French landscape painter; the leading exponent of impressionism. His interest in the effect of light on colour led him to paint series of pictures of the same subject at different times of day. These include Haystacks (1889-93), Rouen Cathedral (1892-94), the Thames (1899-1904), and Water Lilies (1899-1906)
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Noun1.MonetMonet - French impressionist painter (1840-1926)
Claude Monet


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His brain might be full of names, he might have even heard of Monet and Debussy; the trouble was that he could not string them together into a sentence, he could not make them "tell," he could not quite forget about his stolen umbrella.
Howards End by Forster, E. M. View in context
To look at his pictures you would have thought that Monet, Manet, and the rest of the Impressionists had never been.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
--Ille etiam caecos instare tumultus Saepe monet, fraudesque et operta tunescere bella.
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