Abstract by Claude Monet at the museum Marmottan
ARTinvestment.RU   24 ноября 2008

In the Paris Museum Marmottan passes an unusual exhibition dedicated to the late period of creativity father of Impressionism, Claude Monet

Some analyst believe that in two cases out of three people become artists because they want to compensate for these congenital defects of vision.

To prove this in practice is difficult, but there is no doubt that the founder of French impressionist Claude Monet for the past twenty years of his life suffered from serious problems with vision. Employees Marmottan Museum in Paris, which houses the largest collection in the world of work, ask the question: how it influenced his later work?

This museum has become widely known in 1985 when then stole one of the treasures of the collection, painting Monet «Impression. Sunrise », which gave the name of artistic impressionism. Five years later, the police discovered this masterpiece in Corsica and was returned to its rightful owners.

Monet throughout the creative ways remained faithful to a set of subjects: landscapes rivers, harbors, beaches, haystacks, and snow-covered villages, and to trace the development of his style is very easy. At the end of life when the artist wrote in his paintings at Giverny, 80 kilometers from Paris, his work became almost abstract.

In 1911, at the age of 71 years, Monet suddenly discovered that almost blinded in the right eye. In subsequent years, the sight of left eye, too, has deteriorated. The artist complained that he sees everything as if through a fog.

Doctors discovered he had cataracts in both eyes. However, Monet refused the operation because of a fear of what might really cause blindness. It was only in 1923, his friend, former Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau (Georges Clemenceau), persuaded to take this step.

The operation saved the artist's vision, but has not made him happy. He did not accept some of the colors, but continued to use them in painting. He had to remember where are the different colors on his palette. This is in some ways to tell the story of Beethoven, who continued to write music, despite the fact that the lost ear.

After Monet's death in 1926 in the Parisian museum Rooflights (Musee de l ' Orangerie) were exhibited last works - the famous series of water lily, critics were shocked. Some called it «creative suicide», and one of them even said that he saw «Ofelia painting», drowned in a pond.

This changed after World War II, when critics of the United States in search of precursors of abstract expressionism, found in the «abstract impressionism» late Monet precondition to the emergence of tashizma. And in 1999, when the Royal Academy in London were presented later works by the artist, more than 800 thousand visitors came to pay tribute to this great master of French painting.

One of the main objectives of the exhibition in the Museum Marmottan - with the help of computer effects to show that in fact the artist saw when he wrote in the garden of Giverny paintings. Besides paintings, visitors can also see the artist's correspondence with doctors and see a yellow glasses that Monet had to wear after surgery.

If you compare the image of the Japanese bridge at Giverny garden 1918-1919 year with its predecessor in 1899 from the museum d'Orse, you will not doubt that you - the history of the disease to an ophthalmologist, not merely unusual artistic decision.

Exhibition «Monet, impressionist eye» at the Museum Marmottan last until February 15, 2009.

material produced Catherine Onuchin

Sources: bloomberg.com , artinvestment.ru



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