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A magnificent new biography of the founder of Impressionism In the
course of a long and exceptionally creative life, Claude Monet
revolutionized painting and made some of the most iconic images in
western art. Misunderstood and mocked at the beginning of his
career, he risked everything to pursue his original vision.
Although close to starvation when he invented impressionism on the
banks of the Seine in the 1860s-70s, in the following decades he
emerged as the powerful leader of the new painting in Paris at one
of its most exciting cultural moments. His symphonic series
Haystacks, Poplars, and Rouen Cathedral brought wealth and renown.
Then he withdrew to paint only the pond in his garden. The late
Water Lilies, ignored during his lifetime, are now celebrated as
pioneers of twentieth century modernism. Behind this great and
famous artist is a volatile, voracious, nervous yet reckless man,
largely unknown. Jackie Wullschläger's enthralling biography,
based on thousands of never-before translated letters and
unpublished sources, is the first account of Monet's turbulent
private life and how it determined his expressive, sensuous,
sensational painting. He was as obsessional in his love affairs as
in his love of nature, and changed his art decisively three times
when the woman at the centre of his life changed. Enduring
devastating bereavements, he pushed the frontier of painting
inward, to evoke memory and the passing of time. His work also
responded intensely to outside cataclysms - the Dreyfus Affair, the
First World War. Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau was his closest
friend. Rich intellectual currents connected him to writers from
Zola to Proust; affection and rivalry to Renoir, Pissarro and
Manet. Monet said he was driven 'wild with the need to put down
what I experience'. This rich and moving biography immerses us in
that passionate experience, transforming our understanding of the
man, his paintings and the fullness of his achievement.
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