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Monet in Zola & Proust.
While reading and writing about the Impressionists, I realized that the life and personality of Claude Monet, the most popular artist of all time, remain largely unknown. He seems to have vanished into his pictures. Yet he lives on in two great novels: his friend Emile Zola's The Masterpiece (L'Oeuvre) and Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Zola and Proust bring him out of the shadows and illuminate his life and genius.
Zola's The Masterpiece (1886) is--with Balzac's Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu (1831), James's "The Madonna of the Future" (1873), and Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)--one of the greatest portraits of the artist in nineteenth-century ...
- Manet & Monet at the Musee d'Orsay.(Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Musee d'Orsay,...
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Wilkin, Karen April 1, 1998 700+ words
...district. In the 1870s, Claude Monet spent a considerable amount of time...watched by friends who include Monet, Emile Zola, Auguste Renoir, and Frederic...quartier is the unifying thread in Monet's first series, his 1877 paintings...
- Did Dreyfus Drive Monet to Abstraction?
- Newspaper article from: Forward Robin Cembalest February 10, 1995 700+ words
...1987. There he saw Monet's letters congratulating Emile Zola for his articles...s more likely that Monet, who had invested the...letters championing Zola, Mr. Stuckey argues...in the Dreyfus affair Monet really was. "It may...
- Art of the instantaneous. (artist Claude Monet) (The Creators) (Cover Story)
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Boorstin, Daniel J. August 31, 1992 700+ words
Monet captured the evanescence of life in fine...art of the instantaneous, and Claude Monet (1840-1926) showed how it could be...A man amid this crowd of eunuchs," Zola called him. "Monet is only an eye," said Cezanne, "but...
- MONET'S MAGIC RETURNS AFTER 16-YEAR ABSENCE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) January 17, 1995 700+ words
...treason, as a major reason for Monet's change of subject. The...church and state in France. Monet, who wrote several letters to encourage novelist Emile Zola for championing Dreyfus, was...sordidness of the affair caused Monet to give up his lifelong project...
- EASY MONET; In Chicago's Vast Show, the Timeless Master Still Clicks
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Paul Richard August 13, 1995 700+ words
...Cabot Perry, was so taken by Monet's water garden that she bought...Chicago too. The Quickest Brush Monet was painting beautifully while...painting pals -- the Goncourts and Zola, Whistler and Pissarro, Sisley...without the strange sensation that Monet has transcended time. Ironically...
- Seeing and not seeing.(Art)(Claude Monet's art)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Anderson, Patricia January 1, 2009 700+ words
...manicured surfaces well before Monet (we have only to look at a...no little significance that Monet, ultimately the most recognised...protectors, Baudelaire and Zola, who stepped forward to support...a precise distance. Two of Monet's works in the Sydney exhibition...
- Paul Cezanne, ''The Francois Zola Dam''.(SERIES: Encore!)(CNY)
- Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) September 16, 2009 700+ words
CAPTION(S): PHOTO Paul Cezanne, ''The Francois Zola Dam,'' ca. 1877-78. Oil on canvas. 213/8 inches by...exhibition will feature 53 works of art including Cezanne, Monet, van Gogh, Pissarro, Renoir and Whistler, among others...
- Degenerate sublime
- Magazine article from: New Statesman Eyre, Hermione February 16, 2009 700+ words
...endear them to us, and the chatter at a vernissage is seldom profound. The thinly veiled accounts of Czanne and Monet carousing in Zola's Oeuvre make prats of them both. The stories Muir tells here, however, are on another level altogether...
