Impressionism
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Édouard Manet *I 23 1832 — The Life you Give
Édouard Manet, born January 23 1832, in Paris, France, is the painter who broke new ground by defying traditional techniques of representation and by choosing subjects from the events and circumstances of his own time. His Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), exhibited in 1863 at the Salon des Refusés, aroused the hostility…
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Claude Monet *XI 14 1840 — The Life You Give
Oscar-Claude Monet, born November 14, 1840, in Paris, France, is the painter who became the initiator, leader, and unswerving advocate of the Impressionist style. In his mature works, Monet developed his method of producing repeated studies of the same motif in series, changing canvases with the light or as his interest shifted. These series were…

