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Monet
Claude . 1840--1926, French landscape painter; the leading exponent of impressionism. His interest in the effect of light on colour led him to paint series of pictures of the same subject at different times of day. These include Haystacks (1889--93), Rouen Cathedral (1892--94), the Thames (1899--1904), and Water Lilies (1899--1906)


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His brain might be full of names, he might have even heard of Monet and Debussy; the trouble was that he could not string them together into a sentence, he could not make them "tell," he could not quite forget about his stolen umbrella.
Howards End by Forster, E. M. View in context
To look at his pictures you would have thought that Monet, Manet, and the rest of the Impressionists had never been.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
--Ille etiam caecos instare tumultus Saepe monet, fraudesque et operta tunescere bella.
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