Today is the birthday, in 1840, of Claude Monet. He was a French painter and founder of Impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of Impressionism’s philosophy of expressing one’s perceptions of nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting. The term “Impressionism” is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), which was exhibited in 1874 at the First Impressionist Exhibition, initiated by Monet and a number of like-minded artists as an alternative to the Salon.
Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), 1872; the painting that gave its name to the style and artistic movement. Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
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Today is the birthday, in 1966, of Joseph ‘Run’ Simmons, one of the founding members of the influential hip hop group Run–D.M.C. who had the 1986 UK No.8 single with Aerosmith ‘Walk This Way’ and the 1998 UK No.1 single ‘It’s Like That’. He is also a practicing minister, known as Reverend Run. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B_UYYPb-Gk
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