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Baboonboy | 11:29 Sun 25th Feb 2007 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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I suspect this has been debated already but is it Monet or Manet? Cambridge Biographical Dictionary leads you to believe that Manet is the founder of the Impressionist movement but I would have thought Monet was the 'unswerving advocate'. Any thoughts? BB
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I feel fairly certain that the answer in this case is (Claude) Monet.
I assume the a/o is not a checked letter and can't be worked out from another clue?

There are two possibilities - either both answers will be accepted as correct, or the compiler has introduced an element of chance into the answer to reduce the number of correct entries.
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Thanks to you both. I feel it should be Monet so that's what I'll put. Usually forget to send it in anyway!!! Its the satisfaction of completing it though. Cheers. BB
monet for sure. my collins describes him as "the leading exponent of impressionism". which seems to cover the clue.
I'm not so sure.

The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Cultural Literacy says Manet was "A nineteenth-century French painter, one of the originators of Impressionism".

The Hutchinson Encyclopedia says Manet was a "leading Impressionist"

While Monet may be the front runner, I don't think we can exclude Manet. Therefore at the end of the day, only Kate knows the correct answer!
Either way, you have a 1:2 chance of being right, infinitely better odds than you have of being picked out of the postbag.
Watched a TV drama not so long ago about the Impressionists. I obviously didn't pay sufficient attention, or it could just be deteriorating memory !
Definitely Monet .
a case of pays yer monet and takes yer chances ... what?
To settle this once and for all, check website http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/monet/ The wording leaves no doubt. Nice website too.
The initiator unswerving advocate

Exhibited in 1863 at the Salon des Refus�s, his Le D�jeuner sur l'herbe ("Luncheon on the Grass") aroused the hostility of the critics and the enthusiasm of a group of young painters who later formed the nucleus of the Impressionists.

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/manet/

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