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| Claude Monet (1840 to 1926) Claude Monet was an artist by trade and never earned money from anything but his paintings. He began at school selling caricatures of his teachers. All his feelings, from happiness with his family to the painful death of his wife Camille, turned into subjects for paintings. It was if he didn't know how to express himself except on a canvas... |
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| Around 1867-68, Monet painted many of the marinas around the harbour of Le Havre, especially at Sainte-Adresse beach. At that time Monet had married Camille, and, whilst living in Paris, often came back to his parents in Le Havre. |
| Terrasse � Sainte-Adresse, 1867 |
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| Impression, soleil levant, 1873 |
| At first Monet called this painting of Le Havre at Dawn "Marina". But as Edmond Renoir asked for a clearer title in order to put it down in the catalog of the 1874 exhibition at the photographer Nadar's, Monet replied, "Then put: Impression, Sunrise". This painting raised a storm of criticism and gave its name to the Impressionist movement. Thus, Impressionism was born. |
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