Défiant des conventions vieilles de plusieurs siècles, Monet ne cherchait pas seulement à rendre compte de la réalité, mais de l'acte de perception en lui-même. Surnommé le «Prince des impressionnistes», Claude Monet (1840-1926) bouleverse les attentes à l'égard de la peinture sur toile. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

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If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. This book offers the essential introduction to an artist whose works simultaneously reflected upon the purpose of a picture and the passage of time, and in so doing transformed irrevocably the story of art.īorn back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. In his beloved water lily series, as well as in paintings of poplars, grain stacks, and the Rouen cathedral, he returned to the same motif in different seasons, different weather conditions, and at different times of the day, to explore the constant mutability of our visual environment. Monet's interest in this space 'between the motif and the artist' encompassed too the ephemeral nature of each image we see.

Working 'en plein air' with rapid, impetuous brush strokes, he interrogated the play of light on the hues, patterns, and contours and the way in which these visual impressions fall upon the eye. Defying the precedent of centuries, Monet did not seek to render only reality, but the act of perception itself. Hailed the 'Prince of the Impressionists', Claude Monet (1840-1926) transformed expectations for the purpose of paint on canvas.

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