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French Trail Blazers. Monet and Renoir nevertheless persisted in following the evidence of their own eyes rather than the accepted (dun-colored) mode of seeing. Though they lost their first battles to a color-blind public, they could not possibly lose the war, since optical truth was on their side. The truth spread slowly. Toward the close of the igth century it was brought across the Atlantic by the best, of the American impressionists...
...academic art, does not think of his later paintings as pictures at all. Says he, "They are myself." In order to put himself into his canvases, Guston makes them close to his own size. For such self-consciously personal work, the results look strangely like blowups of Claude Monet's water-lily impressions...
...group show in history has become more famous than the one staged in 1874 in the vacated Paris studios of Photographer Nadar. One look at the shocking works by such unknowns as Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro, Degas and Cézanne, and the critics doubled up with laughter. In Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise, the critics found an epithet to pin on the upstarts: "impressionists...
...main point about the impressionists is not that they shared a name in common, but that their vitality and accomplishment rested on individual talent, stubbornly pursued by each artist in accordance with his own unique vision. Claude Monet's long lifetime of painting is a prime example. Long after impressionism ceased to be the vogue, he pushed on with his studies of light and texture. At the age of 76, troubled with approaching blindness, Monet ordered 50 huge (7 ft. by 18 ft.) canvases sent to his country studio at Giverny, began painting the water lilies in the pond...
...Monet's enthusiastic visitors during his final years was a painter a generation younger, Pierre Bonnard, who had a house across the Seine from Giverny. His Dining Room in the Country (opposite) is one of the best examples of what impressionism became under Bonnard's brush. In it, the transition from the blue tablecloth set in the cool interior of what is probably Bonnard's summer house, past the door and window, framing a dark-haired woman, to the shimmering outdoor vibrations, becomes a melodic, orchestrated movement from calm interior repose to the joyous peacefulness...