Monet or The Triumph of Impressionism - Daniel Wildenstein

Along with Turner, no artist has sought more than Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the Impressionists, it was the man Cézanne called "only an eye, but my God what an eye!" who stayed completely true to the principle of absolute fidelity to the visual sensation, painting directly from the object. It could be said that Monet reinvented the possibilities of colour, and whether it was through his early interest in Japanese prints, his time in the dazzling light of Algeria as a conscript, or his personal acquaintance with the major painters of the late 1800s, Monet or The Triumph of Impressionism - Daniel Wildenstein od authora Daniel Wildenstein a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus.cz