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Monet Or The Triumph Of Impressionism
Along with Turner no artist has sought more than Claude Monet (1840-1926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the Impressionists it was the man Cezanne called only an eye but my God what an eye!" who stayed completely true to the principle of absolute fidelity to the visual sensation painting directly from the object. It could be said that Monet reinvented the possibilities of colour and whether it was through his early interest in Japanese prints his time in the dazzling light of Algeria as a conscript or his personal acquaintance with the major painters of the late 1800s what Monet produced throughout his long life would change forever the way we perceive both the natural world and its attendant phenomena. The high point of his explorations were the late series of waterlilies
painted in his own garden at Giverny that in their moves towards almost total formlessness are really the origin of abstract art. This biography does full justice to this most remarkable and profoundly influential of artists and offers numerous reproductions and archive photos alongside a detailed and insightful commentary."
painted in his own garden at Giverny that in their moves towards almost total formlessness are really the origin of abstract art. This biography does full justice to this most remarkable and profoundly influential of artists and offers numerous reproductions and archive photos alongside a detailed and insightful commentary."
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