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'Monet The Early Years' by George T.M. Shackelford with essays by Anthea Callen, Mary Dailey Desmarais, Richard Shiff, and Richard Thomson is the companion catalog for an exhibit of works by Monet that was at the Kimbell Art Museum and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco during late 2016 to mid-2017.
The essays in this book talk about the early techniques that Monet used. There is one devoted to the light used in Luncheon on the Grass. There is one that talks about compositional techniques. Monet was influenced by the painters around him, but he also went further in many ways.
The catalogue has information about where Monet was living and working during the creation of the paintings. There are also works by contemporaries throughout the book showing similar vistas from other eyes and brushes.
I enjoyed reading about this part of Monet's life, and I enjoyed getting to view the paintings that were in this exhibit.
I received a review copy of this ebook from Yale University Press and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.
The essays in this book talk about the early techniques that Monet used. There is one devoted to the light used in Luncheon on the Grass. There is one that talks about compositional techniques. Monet was influenced by the painters around him, but he also went further in many ways.
The catalogue has information about where Monet was living and working during the creation of the paintings. There are also works by contemporaries throughout the book showing similar vistas from other eyes and brushes.
I enjoyed reading about this part of Monet's life, and I enjoyed getting to view the paintings that were in this exhibit.
I received a review copy of this ebook from Yale University Press and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.
apolasky's review
4.0
Thank you Netgallet and Yale University Press for the ARC!
I believe this is the most comprehensive book on Monet's life and work. Ful review on my blog.
I believe this is the most comprehensive book on Monet's life and work. Ful review on my blog.
marziesreads's review
5.0
I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
This is a fabulous book, far more than a mere exhibition catalogue. The book follows Monet's work as he developed his art. Surprisingly, in his youth, he mostly drew caricatures. His family was initially unsupportive of his aspirations of being an artist. It was only after Eugène Boudin took him under his wing that he began to paint and embrace landscape work. Subsequent exposure to art of the Barbizon School (Corot, Millet, et al) led him to enroll in a conventional Academie. His tenure there brief and unproductive, he was stationed in Algeria but left to recover from illness. Upon returning to Paris he met his other early stylistic influence, Johan Barthold Jongkind. Within a short time he was working in the studio of Charles Gleyre, where he met his greatest artist friend, Pierre Auguste Renoir. The depth of their artistic connection, each with a unique painting and compositional style, is highlighted extensively, though the focus of the book is Monet's work from the 1860's- early 1870's.
The book offers seven essays on different aspects of the early years of Monet's painting. Among the them, Hunting the Light presents an interesting discussion of Monet's "Déjeuner sur L'Herbe," and its complexity when contrasted with Manet's more famous image of the same title. Much of the artwork in the catalogue is richly reproduced, in good color quality and of generous size, in the eBook copy I received. From the exquisite The Porte d'Amont, Entretat 1868-69 to the Argenteuil paintings of the early 1870's, the images and details of images are a true visual treat.
This is a fabulous book, far more than a mere exhibition catalogue. The book follows Monet's work as he developed his art. Surprisingly, in his youth, he mostly drew caricatures. His family was initially unsupportive of his aspirations of being an artist. It was only after Eugène Boudin took him under his wing that he began to paint and embrace landscape work. Subsequent exposure to art of the Barbizon School (Corot, Millet, et al) led him to enroll in a conventional Academie. His tenure there brief and unproductive, he was stationed in Algeria but left to recover from illness. Upon returning to Paris he met his other early stylistic influence, Johan Barthold Jongkind. Within a short time he was working in the studio of Charles Gleyre, where he met his greatest artist friend, Pierre Auguste Renoir. The depth of their artistic connection, each with a unique painting and compositional style, is highlighted extensively, though the focus of the book is Monet's work from the 1860's- early 1870's.
The book offers seven essays on different aspects of the early years of Monet's painting. Among the them, Hunting the Light presents an interesting discussion of Monet's "Déjeuner sur L'Herbe," and its complexity when contrasted with Manet's more famous image of the same title. Much of the artwork in the catalogue is richly reproduced, in good color quality and of generous size, in the eBook copy I received. From the exquisite The Porte d'Amont, Entretat 1868-69 to the Argenteuil paintings of the early 1870's, the images and details of images are a true visual treat.
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