Claude Monet

Impressionism is described by Arnold Hauser as the last universally valid European style, or the latest trend based on a general consensus of taste. He writes: "Since its dissolution it has been impossible to classify stylistically either the various arts or the various nations and cultures." In part, Hauser finds that the rise of Impressionism was related to the antagonism of the public to this style, and in part this was because the Impressionists did not make it easy for the public to understand their artistic ideas.

Paris in the nineteenth century was the center of the art world, and a large number of brilliant artists collected in the same region and worked at the same time in this city. They endured years of rebuff and suffering, but together they completely changed t

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made pilgrimages to places he knew, especially in France, but also in London and Venice. London and Venice were the subject of a new series of canvases displayed in 1904 and 1912. The style of painting in these works is markedly different from that of his earlier years. These paintings are more subtle and vaporous, thicker and more suffused with light. Still, they were always executed with a mastery that could permit this difference. The artist by now could complete certain canvases from memory: "This technique might seem to contradict the old idea of capturing nature by surprise, as it were, but in reality for Monet memory was only an instrument for recording an impression, an impression which free now of all petty detail preserved only the essence of the object remembered." The world depicted by Monet became increasingly unreal, often with no sky as a sign of this change. This was the period of his failing eyesight. After an accident in 1900 he lost the use of one eye temporarily, and in subsequent years he was again to be troubled by eye problems. His painting of Venice and London from memory was thus not a choice as much as a necessity. His painting "Grand Canal, Venice" is one such work. "GRAND CANAL, VENICE"
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