![]() While painters such as Cézanne and Gauguin soon abandoned the Impressionist movement in search of new paths towards modernity, Monet was “ the most faithful of all painters (…) to Impressionism as such, the only one who made positivism and the pictorial materialism of sensation the programme of his entire career, taking it to its ultimate consequences” (J.M. ![]() Claude Monet (1840-1926) is the Impressionist painter par excellence, a long-lived and prolific genius, bold and seemingly tireless, never a theoretician but with a stubborn dedication to experimentation, who during his seven-decade career devoted himself like no other to exploiting the artistic possibilities opened up by Impressionism. ![]()
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