Monet

[moh-ney, maw-ne]

noun

1. Claude 1840–1926, French painter.

Monet

/ mɔnɛ /

noun

1. Claude (klod). 1840–1926, French landscape painter; the leading exponent of impressionism. His interest in the effect of light on colour led him to paint series of pictures of the same subject at different times of day. These include Haystacks (1889–93), Rouen Cathedral (1892–94), the Thames (1899–1904), and Water Lilies (1899–1906)

Example Sentences

Many of Monet’s artist friends, including James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent and Édouard Manet, had succumbed to La Serenissima’s seductive light and glittering water, but Monet seemed resistant.

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“What you must realize,” he wrote to his first wife, Mary, “is that once I begin a story you become a character, not a person; Monet’s haystacks didn’t complain that they weren’t really purple.”

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The former contains a painting of the local windmills by French impressionist Claude Monet, who visited in 1871.

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“I do not mean a Monet poster from a long-ago art exhibition, but one from a much cooler event, like a film festival or your early adulthood. Something you can’t make yourself get rid of.”

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There is a soaring quality to much of the album, particularly the aptly named “Fly Away,” featuring Aja Monet.

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