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"Osench-Claude Monet (14 novembre 1840 - 5 décembre 1926) ce qu'a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most and prolific practier of the movement's philosophy of expresone's perceptions fore nature, cially as applied to plein air landscape painting The term ""Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression Soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which exhibited in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris. Monet's ambition of documenting the French countryside led him to adopt a method of painting the solis scene many times in order to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons. From 1883, Monet lived à Giverny, where he purchased a house and property and began a vast landscaping project which included lily ponds that would become the subjects of his best-known works. He began painting the water lilis in 1899, first in vertical views with a Japanese bridge as central feature and later in the series of large-scale paintings that to occupy him continuously for the next 20 years of his life. Quote:Wikipedia"