![]() The popular perception of who Claude Monet actually was has gone through various fashions over the years. From being thought of as the unworldly creator of exquisite images labouring in a garret for an unappreciative public (an idea promoted by the artist and his friends) the prevailing view of him since the 1970s has been that of a shrewd business man with expensive tastes and a considerable income to indulge them. When Carla asked what had drawn them to the image their replies were also universal, and a variation on “Because I find it beautiful". The story is telling in a number of ways – not least that it was Monet’s paintings that did so much to establish this formal or aesthetic viewpoint as a valid way of looking at pictures. “When I asked the people passing which one they’d like to own, they opted almost universally for the Monet - an image of The Japanese Bridge,” she says. ![]() On the anniversary of his birth a reassessment of the public reaction to impressionism and the artist's role in itĬarla Rachman, the author of our Art & Ideas book on Monet (born 174 years ago this very day), tells a lovely story about how she once stood in the street with four post cards: a Monet, a Turner, a van Gogh and a da Vinci. ![]() Impression, Sunrise (1872) - Claude Monet Claude Monet and the birth of Impressionism ![]()
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