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Claude Monet Claude Monet (cl-ohd mun-ay) is the best-known painter of the impressionist movement. Today, his work hardly seems radical. However, to art viewers of the 1870s, his paintings seemed unfinished and sketchy - nothing like they had ever seen before. Monet and the other impressionists turned away from the past, rejecting traditional subjects such as history or religion, and painting the modern world around them in new ways. Many of the impressionists, Monet included, painted outdoors, a practice made easier by the recent invention of paint in tubes. Their primary goal was to capture on canvas the atmosphere of a particular moment in time through the use of colour and light. In this painting, Monet has successfully conveyed the feeling of a late winter day in Argenteuil, a suburb of Paris. There is a sense of dampness and chill in the air; however, the snow seems to be melting,...

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