10 facts about Claude Monet

Claude Monet is the founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement’s philosophy of expressing one’s perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.
Here are 10 facts about this amazing painter:
1/ His full name is Claude Oscar Monet

2/ He was born on November 14, 1840 in Paris


3/ He was a famous French artist known for impressionism


4/ He made the term “Impressionist” by painting an impressionist picture called Impression, Sunrise

5/ He tried to kill himself in 1868, but failed


6/He started to have vision problems in 1907

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