In 1874, when Claude Monet first exhibited the painting 'Impressionism, Sunrise', the critics were outraged. Impressionism went on to become one of the major art movements of the late 19th century but at the time was considered 'subversive'. Monet lived long enough to become a prophet honoured in his own country and his influence on 20th century art was to be a lasting one. He drew his inspiration from nature - landscapes and the plant life that inhabited them, water and its reflection, the air glittering with light or mistily luminescent. He saw the world as if reflected by the rays of the sun, a dream refracted in a prism and this dream led him in later works to the 'Water-Lilies' and the borderline of abstraction. This biography is a revised version of the first volume of the four-volume catalogue also published by Taschen. It is beautifully bound, with most of the hundreds of reproductions in colour. 488 pages. Fantastic value for this slick production.
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