Good News in History, November 14175 years ago today Claude Monet, one of the founders of French Impressionist painting, was born in Paris. Beloved for his later works of lily ponds at his countryside home in Giverny, he exemplified the movement's core value of expressing one's perceptions of nature through broken color and rapid brushstrokes. The term "Impressionism" was derived from the title of his painting
Impression, Sunrise, displayed in 1874 at the first exhibition mounted by the radical new school of artists. (1840)
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