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Claude Monet
Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise. - <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet' target="_blank">Wikipedia</a> -
Stéphane Mallarmé
Stéphane Mallarmé (18 March 1842 – 9 September 1898), whose real name was Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Dadaism, Surrealism, and Futurism. - <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stéphane_Mallarmé' target="_blank">Wikipedia</a> -
Claude Debussy
Achille-Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures associated with Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions. - <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Debussy' target="_blank">Wikipedia</a> -
Maurice Ravel
Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937) was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects. Much of his piano music, chamber music, vocal music and orchestral music has entered the standard concert repertoire. - <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Ravel' target="_blank">Wikipedia</a> -
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. He is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. - <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso' target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>