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AMBROSIA HSG Shoot for the moon.

r the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars

WORD FORMATION
CLAUDE MONET – THE SUNRISE OF ART
Claude Monet (1840-1926) is the founder of the famous branch of
Impressionism, and the most consistent and prolific _____ (PRACTISE) of the
movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature. The first
key point to understanding Monet is that he is a prodigy, a raw genius. He was
already entertaining people at local shops as a schoolboy, at which point he met
with a landscape artist Eugene Boudin. Struck by his talent, she encouraged the
teenaged _____ (KIND) to paint in the open air on Normandy’s beaches. Monet
went on to get a proper Paris art education but his freedom and fluency were
already there from his early works. His innate genius is worn so lightly it is always
_____ (TOXIC). Today he’d probably be a street artist. In his day, Monet painted a
rich variety of topics, everything he saw, notably peaceful scene of nature and even
recorded moment of one’s last breath, which he deemed the fleeting beauty of the
modern world. His reputation is intrinsically connected with the _____ (BOUND)
painting ‘Impression, sunrise’, the one that gave rise to the renowned art branch
‘Impressionism’. In the later part of his life, his style turned blurrier and blurrier due
to his _____ (OPHTHAMOLOGY) problem. At the time, he had to paint from his
memory yet the _____ (FIRM) failed to undermine his exceptionality. Nonetheless,
for Monet himself, overwhelmed by the feeling of being _____ (CREST), he single-
handedly _____ (TERMINAL) them after his surgery. Beyond any shadow of doubt,
Claude Monet’s _____ (ILLUSTRATION) is _____ (ESSENCE) for Dan Brown’s saying:
‘So long as they speak your name, you shall never die. ‘

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