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Claude Monet - His most famous paintings (HD)

Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter who founded impressionist painting and is widely regarded as a key precursor to modernism, particularly in his attempts to capture the natural world as he saw it. Throughout his lengthy career, he remained the most consistent and prolific practitioner of impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, with a particular focus on plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" was coined from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant, which was exhibited in the 1874 "exhibition of rejects" initiated by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon. Monet grew up in Le Havre, Normandy, and from a young age, he was interested in the outdoors and drawing. While his mother, Louise-Justine Aubrée Monet, supported his artistic ambitions, his father, Claude-Adolphe, did not and wanted him to pursue a career in business. Following his mother's death in January 1857, Monet was sent to live with his childless, wealthy widowed aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre. He studied at the Académie Suisse and under the academic history painter Charles Gleyre, where he became friends with Auguste Renoir. Although his early works included landscapes, seascapes, and portraits, they received little attention. Eugène Boudin was a significant early influence who introduced him to the concept of plein air painting. From 1883, Monet lived in Giverny, northern France, where he purchased a house and property and embarked on a vast landscaping project, including a water-lily pond. Monet's desire to capture the French countryside led him to develop a method of painting the same scene many times, enabling him to capture the changing light and seasons. Among his best-known examples are his series of haystacks (1890–91), paintings of the Rouen Cathedral (1894), and the paintings of water lilies in his garden in Giverny, which he worked on continuously for the last two decades of his life. During his lifetime, Monet was frequently exhibited and successful. In the second half of the 20th century, his fame and popularity grew dramatically, and he became one of the world's most famous painters, inspiring emerging groups of artists.