Claude Monet — "Dear God, this cursed Cathedral is hard to do… Fourteen paintings on the go toda…"
Dear God, this cursed Cathedral is hard to do… Fourteen paintings on the go today… I'm exhausted and it seems that every day the light changes: it gets whiter and higher up.
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French Impressionist painter whose Impression, Sunrise (1872) named the movement, and whose late Water Lilies series anticipated 20th-century abstraction.
Closely associated with
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Impressionist co-founder) and Camille Pissarro (Impressionist mentor figure).
For an intellectual contrast, see
the Académie des Beaux-Arts and the Salon, the French art establishment of the 1860s-70s — The Académie rejected Monet and the Impressionists throughout the 1860s-70s, forcing them to organize the 1874 Salon des Refusés that became Impressionism's launch. Monet's career is the canonical example of an artistic revolution that bypassed institutional gatekeeping — the Académie's rejection inadvertently created modernism.
Details
Letter to Alice Hoschedé, regarding his Rouen Cathedral series