# @gettymuseum on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CWQzhs6P_Oi
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34228778-gettymuseum-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-11-14T16:14:14.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty (@gettymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/gettymuseum

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Happy birthday, Monet! The famous French painter and founder of Impressionism was born on this day in 1840.

Claude Monet was a successful caricaturist, but after studying plein-air (outdoor) landscape painting, he moved to Paris in 1859. He soon met future Impressionists Camille Pissarro and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Renoir and Monet began painting outdoors together in the late 1860s, laying the foundations of Impressionism.

During the 1870s, Monet developed his technique for rendering atmospheric outdoor light, using broken, rhythmic brushwork; see "Sunrise (Marine)" as an example. The public and critics alike complained that his paintings were formless, unfinished, and ugly. By the 1880s, however, his paintings started selling; Pissarro accused him of commercialism, and younger painters called him passé.

In 1890, he began creating paintings in series, depicting the same subject under various conditions and at different times of the day. His late pictures, made when he was half-blind, are shimmering pools of color almost totally devoid of form. See some of these paintings and more works from his legendary career at the #LinkinBio.

🏷️ #Getty #Monet #Paintings #StillLife #FrenchArtist

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