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Impressionist and Post Impressionist Artists Claude Monet Born: November 14, 1840, Paris Died: December 5, 1926, Giverny Monet was a French painter, initiator, leader, and dedicated to the Impressionist style. He is regarded as the classic Impressionist in terms of his devotion to the movement. His youth was spent in Le Havre, where he first excelled as a caricaturist artist (comic like) but then converted to landscape painting under the influence of his early mentor Boudin, from whom he derived his firm predilection for painting out doors. In 1859 he studied in Paris at the Atelier Suisse and formed a friendship with Pissarro. After two years' military service in Algiers, he returned to Le Havre and met Jongkind, to whom he said he owed `the definitive education of my eye'. In 1862, he entered the studio of Gleyre in Paris where he met Renoir, Sisley, and Bazille, who later formed an Impressionist group. Monet's devotion...

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