Claude monet biography book

We meet a number of Monets in Jackie Wullschla&#;ger’s new biography—the first to be published in English on the acclaimed painter. First we meet Oscar, Claude’s given name, a teenage caricaturist sketching notable figures in the port city of Le Havre. bygd , Oscar had grown into a brash ung man headed to military service in Algeria. He returned a painter reinvented as Claude and apprenticing in the studio of Charles Gleyre. His fortunes waxed and waned over the years: he was poor in Paris, poor in Saint-Adresse, poor in Vétheuil; then lovestruck and lusting after his patron Ernest Hoschedé’s wife Alice; then reigning over a collection of artists at the fashionable Café Riche. By , he was a bourgeois gardener at Giverny eating enough to feed kvartet, and bygd , an aging widower fearing han själv blind.

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Monet: Or the Triumph of Impressionism

January 10,

Holy smokes! This is how you write and design an extensive biography of a painter whose body of work is enormous. I just finished this book with tears streaming down my face. Oh wow, the beauty of it all.

In December, I read a similar biography on Van Gogh and whilst I appreciated its design as well (I mean, it features all + paintings of Van Gogh in full color what's there to dislike?) I found that the actual biography was put together quite lacklustre. The actual text bored me to death. The authors kept babbling about the least interesting aspects of Van Gogh's life and did that in such a manner that made me question their expertise.

But this book right here – Monet: Or the Triumph of Impressionism is everything a biography should be! I could cry tears of joy just thinking about it. Daniel Wildenstein put together a text which gives, of course, great insight into Monet's life (not just the facts, though, you really get an

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In September, , while Prussian soldiers were trying to starve Paris into surrender, Claude Monet was in Normandy with his wife, Camille, and their son, Jean, looking for a boat out of France. They weren’t alone. Every day, hundreds of people went down to the docks in the hope of escaping the Franco-Prussian War; only later would Monet learn that some of his best friends had shoved through the same crowd. By November, he and his family had reached London, though they spoke no English. Months passed, and the Siege of Paris gave way to the Paris Commune and thousands of murdered civilians. The Monets moved on to the Netherlands, where Camille taught French and Claude painted canals. In photographs taken in Amsterdam around this time, their eyes look a decade older than the rest of them. They bought pots for a garden they might grow when the killing stopped.

Fleeing to two countries to avoid war was in some ways the rule, not the exception, of this artist’s life. He fled apartments to