Monet

Gebonden, hardcover, inclusief stofomslag; 1993; Studio Editions, London, England; 144pp.; Conditie: Goed; Engels; ISBN10: 1851708588, ISBN13: 9781851708581

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Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) was both the most typical and the most individual painter of impressionism. His long life and extraordinary work capacity - coupled with a sometimes furious perfectionism - he dedicated to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which reality, and in particular landscape, offer the human eye. But while Monet the painter was faithful and persevering in the pursuit of his motifs, his personal life - characterized by frequent travels and changes of location - followed a more restless course. Parisian by birth, he discovered plein-air painting as a youth in the provinces and sought to defy his family's insistence upon an academic painter's training. For over half his life the artist was plagued by financial worries, which in part precipitated the frequent moves made by his expanding household. Two of his homes stand out above the rest. The first, Argenteull, has come to represent the artistic flowering and official establishment of impressionism as a movement, with Monet as its creative leader. But it was also Monet who, in his endeavour to capture the ever-changing face of reality, went beyond impressionism and thereby beyond the confines of the self-contained panel painting. This step he took in the village of Giverny: here 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, no longer more than tenuously representational structure and impressive scale, his water lily paintings - created long before the currents of the contemporary avant-garde - point the way forward to the developments of the future.

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Hoe anders was de wereld in de tijd van Monet? <br />Ontdek hoe de samenleving en de kunst van die tijd zijn werk beïnvloedden. <br />* Welke invloed hadden familie, vrienden en bekenden op de kunst van Monet? Ontdek de lijnen naar liefde, leven en dood in zijn werk. <br />* Ontdek wat de schilderijen werkelijk betekenen. Ontdek wat de werken ons vertellen over Monet en ontdek de methoden die hij gebruikte bij het vervaardigen. <br />* Voor wie waren de schilderijen bestemd? Hoe kunnen we zien wat een kunstenaar tot een ‘groot’ kunstenaar maakt? Lees wat de mensen over de werken van Monet vonden tijdens zijn leven, en de invloed die ze nu nog op ons hebben. <br />Een fascinerende kijk op leven en kunst van Monet.

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Claude Monet (1840-1926) was both the most typical and the most individual painter associated with the Impressionist movement. His long life and extraordinary work were dedicated to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which reality, and in particular landscape, offer the human eye. Monet's poplars, grain stacks, Rouen Cathedral, and water lilies paintings - among the most beloved works of the Impressionist period - were created long before the currents of the contemporary avant-grade and had an inestimable influence on the development of modern art. This book traces the life's work of one of art history's most beloved painters.