Monet: BA

Heinrich, Christoph

ISBN 10: 3836503980 / ISBN 13: 9783836503983

Editore: TASCHEN, 2015

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Zustand: Gut | Seiten: 96 | Sprache: Französisch | Produktart: Bücher.

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• Titolo: Monet: BA
• Editore: TASCHEN
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Francese
• ISBN 10: 3836503980
• ISBN 13: 9783836503983
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: Gut

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Riassunto

Hailed the “Prince of the Impressionists”, Claude Monet (1840-1926) transformed expectations for the purpose of paint on canvas. Defying the precedent of centuries, Monet did not seek to render only reality, but the act of perception itself. 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.

Monet's interest in this space “between the motif and the artist” encompassed too the ephemeral nature of each image we see. 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.

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.

Informazioni sull?autore

Christoph Heinrich a étudié l’histoire de l’art, le théâtre et l’allemand à Vienne et Munich et a obtenu un doctorat pour son travail sur le concept changeant de monument dans l’art contemporain. De 1994 à 2007, il est employé à la Hamburger Kunsthalle où il a été nommé entre autres commissaire de la galerie du présent. Depuis 2007, il est le conservateur du département d’art moderne et contemporain du Denver Art Museum. Il est en outre l’auteur de nombreux écrits sur l’art contemporain.