Claude Monet — "I found my eyes fixed on the tragic countenance, mechanically trying to seek the…"
I found my eyes fixed on the tragic countenance, mechanically trying to seek the sequence, the degradation of the colours that death had just imposed on the motionless face. Shades of blue, yellow, grey, and I don't know what… My automatic instinct was first to tremble at the shock of the colour.
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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
Personal reflection on painting his dead wife, Camille Monet