25 Monet
de Wildenstein Daniel
The most typical and the most individual Impressionist painter
Claude Monet (1840-1926) was the most typical and the most individual Impressionist painter. His long life he dedicated to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which reality, and in particular landscape, offers the human eye.
But while Monet the painter was faithful and persevering in the pursuit of his motifs, his personal life followed a more restless course. Parisian by birth, he discovered plein-air painting as a youth in the provinces, where one of his homes, Argenteuil, has come to represent the artistic flowering and official establishment of Impressionism as a movement, with Monet as its creative leader.
In his endeavor to capture the ever-changing face of reality, Monet went
beyond Impressionism and thereby beyond the confines of self-contained
panel painting: in Giverny he painted the Poplars, Grain Stacks and
Rouen Cathedral series in which he addressed one motif in constantly new
variations. Here, too, Monet laid out the famous garden with its
water-lily pond which he was to paint on huge canvases well into the
1920s. He thereby sought to render not reality as objectively
experienced, but rather that which takes place "between the motif and
the artist." In their open, merely tenuously representational structure
and impressive scale, Monet's water lily paintings—created long before
the currents of the contemporary avant-garde—point the way to the
developments of the future.
Data aparitie | 2010 |
Editie | Editia I |
ISBN | 9783836523219 |
Loc aparitie | Bucuresti |
Numar de pagini | 480 |
Tip coperta | Necartonat |
Autor | Wildenstein Daniel |