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Claude Monet is best known as a leader of the Impressionists, his paintings defining the style that triggered a revolution in art. During the eighty-six years of his life, Monet never rested, and was always driven by the urge to paint. And more than two thousand paintings survive from six highly creative decades. Despite being a celebrity among France's political and cultural elite, Monet never became complacent. Even in his seventies and eighties he was still producing paintings that astounded the art world. Monet's work remains highly influential – his abstraction, gestural strokes and expressive colour capturing the imagination of generation after generation of artists.

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.intersperses color plates of the actual paintings with Van Ryn's drawings of scenes from Monet's life. Van Ryn's style is complementary without being imitative. This Is Monet is part of an unusual series from British publisher Laurence King that combines biographical text, reproductions and modern illustrations. NPR Online

.intersperses color plates of the actual paintings with Van Ryn's drawings of scenes from Monet's life. Van Ryn's style is complementary without being imitative. This Is Monet is part of an unusual series from British publisher Laurence King that combines biographical text, reproductions and modern illustrations. NPR Online---

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Sara Pappworth is an art historian, teacher and photographer. She has worked in museum and gallery education for more than 20 years and currently works at Tate Britain and Modern, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the National Gallery. Aude Van Ryn studied at Central St Martins and the Royal College of Art in London. Her work has featured on theatre posters, packaging for Le Pain Quotidien and campaigns for clients such as The British Heart Foundation.

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