Monet. The Triumph of Impressionism | TASCHEN

A fundamental impressionist. No other artist, apart from J. M. W. Turner, tried as hard as Claude Monet (1840-1926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the Impressionists, it was the man whom Cézanne called "only the eye, but my God, what an eye!" who remained true to the principle of absolute fidelity to visual perception, painting directly from the object. One could say that Monet reinvented the possibilities of colour. Whether it was through his early interest in Japanese prints, his time as a conscript in the dazzling light of Algeria, or his personal acquaintance with the great painters of the late 19th century, the work Monet produced during his long life changed the manner forever. We perceive both the natural world and the phenomena that go with it. The culmination of his explorations was a late series of water lilies painted in his own garden at Giverny, which in their approach to almost complete formlessness are truly the origin of abstract art.

By Daniel Wildenstein

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Binding: hardcover

588 pages

Format: 21 x 26 cm

ISBN/EAN: 9783836590839

Publisher: Taschen

Year of publication: 2022