... bring out the vivid quality of each. Therefore, the painters will achieve a greater brilliance of colour and tones in their paintings. The most famous impressionists of all times include Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot and Alfred Sisley. Claude Oscar Monet is a French impressionist painter who was famous for bringing the study of the transient effects of natural light to its most refined expression. He was born on November 14, 1840 in Paris, France. However, strangely, he spent most of his childhood in Le Havre. During his teen years, he studied drawing and also painted seascapes outside with the French painter Eugene Louis Boudin. By 1859, Monet had committed himself to a promising career as an artist and began to spend as much time in Paris as possible. During the 1860's he was associated with the preimpressionist painter Edouard Manet and with other French painters ...

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