Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Painted by Claude Monet between 1864 and 1925

Claude Monet
Shadows on the Sea - the Cliffs at Pourville
1882
oil on canvas
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

Claude Monet
Seascape - Shipping by Moonlight
1864
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

Claude Monet
Doges' Palace, Venice
1908
oil on canvas
Brooklyn Museum

"In Modernist accounts, Monet's technical innovations are a mark of his critical and moral detachment from the codes, conventions and assumptions of Academic art.  But just as important, they are seen to represent a similar detachment from the experiences and commodities  of 'mass culture' which are considered 'inauthentic'.  Monet's modernism, therefore, is regarded in such accounts as establishing a self-critical otherness to modernization and to capitalism's commodification both of experience and of most representations of experience.  For Modernists, the autonomy of art and of aesthetic judgments is regarded as potentially emancipatory in an economic and social system where everything appears subject to rationalization and normalization.  We might ask, though, for whom is there the possibility of such emancipation?  Inevitably, as Modernists acknowledge, it will be for an elite (possessing, in Pierre Bourdieu's analysis, intellectual capital, though not necessarily economic capital) with the appropriate sensibility and developed critical faculties.  . . .  These ideological interests help explain why, for many Modernists, Monet's practice, where there is some level of emphasis on technical and formal issues, is regarded as exemplary.  This relative emphasis is sometimes regarded as an absolute, pure and independent essence; the 'autonomy of medium' (surface, flatness, color, shape, texture, etc.) is seen as a value supposedly transcending the moral and social demands of historical circumstances."  

– Nigel Blake and Francis Frascina, from the chapter Modern Practices of Art and Modernity in Modernity and Modernism : French Painting in the Nineteenth Century (Yale University Press, 1993)

Claude Monet
Ice breaking up on the Seine near Bennecourt
1893
oil on canvas
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Claude Monet
Poplars on the Epte
1891
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

Claude Monet
Springtime
1872
oil on canvas
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Claude Monet
Summer
1874
oil on canvas
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Claude Monet
Boulevard des Capucines, Paris
1873-74
oil on canvas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

Claude Monet
St Germain l'Auxerrois, Paris
1867
oil on canvas
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Claude Monet
Yellow Irises
ca. 1914-17
oil on canvas
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Claude Monet
Wisteria
ca. 1925
oil on canvas
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague

Claude Monet
Japanese Bridge
ca. 1918-24
oil on canvas
Fondation Beyeler, Switzerland

Claude Monet
Japanese Footbridge, Giverny
ca. 1920-24
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Claude Monet
Waterlilies
1904
oil on canvas
Musée d'art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre