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Monet

Monet

30 5.5
A French painter who paints light and atmosphere in landscapes like water lilies
  • proper noun
  • /moʊˈneɪ/
: Monet
  • Ahead of us, that bend in the river, like Monet's paintings of the Seine.
  • Claude Monet
  • paintings by Monet
  • Monet, the painter

And what I would also share in response to that is like Claude Monet's water lilies, right?

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Examples

  • Can you tell which is the painting by Monet and which is by Renoir?

  • Monet is a very famous artist.

    D-Day Assassins (2019)

  • " It was supposed to be a Monet, and it looked like his style.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • This is where Monet lived and painted, we're 30 minutes from town!

    Midnight in Paris (2011)

  • And they look at a Monet painting of a pond.

  • I love Monet.

    Ghosted (2023)

  • Students explore "theme and variations" in visual art by looking at Monet's water lily paintings.

    Academic text (2011)

  • These are paintings by Monet, Picasso, Paul Clay, painters we love today, Van Gogh and others.

  • If anything, my reading urges a heightened consciousness of Monet's subjectivity at work.

    Academic text (1994)

  • Claude Monet is celebrated for his stunning depictions of water lilies and gardens.

Synonyms

Claude Monet
vsMonet
2 5.2

A French painter who helped start the Impressionist style and painted light-filled landscapes

has identical meaning but uses a shorter familiar name form

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Monet is the last name of the French painter Claude Monet, who painted soft, light-filled pictures of gardens and water lilies. Because of his famous work, Monet now makes people think of bright color and changing light and the style called 'Impressionism', so the name helps you imagine a gentle, light-filled landscape.