This is Claude Monet

Oscar-Claude Monet (French: [klod mɔnɛ]; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint plants as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of impressionism’s philosophy of expressing one’s perceptions since nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term “Impressionism” is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant, exhibited in 1874 in the first Salon des Refusés (“exhibition of rejects”) initiated by Monet and his contacts as an exchange to the Salon.

Monet was raised in Le Havre, Normandy, and became enthusiastic in the outdoors and drawing from an in the future age. Although his mother, Louise-Justine Aubrée Monet, supported his ambitions to be a painter, his father, Claude-Adolphe, disapproved and wanted him to pursue a career in business. He was very close to his mother, but she died in January 1857 like he was sixteen years old, and he was sent to live behind his childless, widowed but wealthy aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre. He went on to breakdown at the Académie Suisse, and below the academic archives painter Charles Gleyre, where he was a classmate of Auguste Renoir. His in front works attach landscapes, seascapes, and portraits, but attracted Tiny attention. A key early distress was Eugène Boudin who introduced him to the concept of plein air painting. From 1883, Monet lived in Giverny, also in northern France, where he purchased a home and property and began a vast landscaping project, including a water-lily pond.

His ambition to documenting the French countryside led to a method of painting the similar scene many times appropriately as to invade the varying of well-ventilated and passing of the seasons. Among the 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 that occupied him until the put an end to of time for the last 20 years of his life.

Frequently exhibited and well-off during his lifetime, his fame and popularity soared in the second half of the 20th century taking into account he became one of the word’s most well-known painters and a source of inspiration for burgeoning groups of artists.