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Claude Monet (Nov 14, 1840 - Dec 5, 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting "Impression, Sunrise". On April 1, 1851, Monet entered the Le Havre secondary school of the arts. Monet undertook his first drawing lessons from Jacques-Francois Ochard, a former student of Jacques-Louis David. When Monet traveled to Paris to visit The Louvre, he witnessed painters copying from the old masters. Monet, having brought his paints and other tools with him, would instead go and sit by a window and paint what he saw.
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