Claude monet 1840 1926 ice one of thé musts admired spirit famous painters of all hour, spirit thé architect of impressionism: a revolution att gift birth two modern art. His technique painting out of doors, to thé seashore or in thé city streets var as radically new as his subject matter, thé landscapes spirit middle-class pastimes of a newly industrialized paris. Painting with an unprecedented immediacy spirit authenticity, monet claimed att his work var something new: botheration kind spirit threaten.In this new introductory study, james h. Ruby one of thé world’p foremost specialist in 19th-century french art traces thé development of monet’p practice, from his early work as a caricaturist two thé translate paintings of waterlilies spirit his garden to giverny. Ruby explores thé cultural currents att helped two shape monet’p work: thé utopian thought att gift rise two his politics his interest in japanese prints, gardening, spirit trends in thé decorative arts spirit his relationship with tidigare french landscape painters as wel as som samtidens as manet spirit renoir.
