Monet and Japan by Spate, Virginia; Monet, Claude - 2001

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2001. Softcover. As New. Monet never travelled to Japan, but he surrounded himself with a large collection of Japanese woodblock prints. Like a number of other Parisians, he first collected Japanese prints in the 1860s. He shared the European view of Japanese culture as supremely artistic, shaped by the refined aesthetic tastes of its people, in harmony with its legendary beauty. As early as the 1870s, critics were writing about the influence of Japanese art on Monet's Impression. Monet and Japan shows how Japanese prints and paintings helped to shape Monet's art during six decades, influencing not only his style and subject matter, but the very way he saw the world around him. It includes Japanese prints and paintings that we know Monet saw, or could have seen, or works very like them. The book also contains Monet's paintings of his pays, that part of France which he knew best, where he was born and brought up--the Seine Valley from Le Havre… Read More

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2001. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Monet never travelled to Japan, but he surrounded himself with a large collection of Japanese woodblock prints. Like a number of other Parisians, he first collected Japanese prints in the 1860s. He shared the European view of Japanese culture as supremely artistic, shaped by the refined aesthetic tastes of its people, in harmony with its legendary beauty. As early as the 1870s, critics were writing about the influence of Japanese art on Monet's Impression. Monet and Japan shows how Japanese prints and paintings helped to shape Monet's art during six decades, influencing not only his style and subject matter, but the very way he saw the world around him. It includes Japanese prints and paintings that we know Monet saw, or could have seen, or works very like them. The book also contains Monet's paintings of his pays, that part of France which he knew best, where he was born and brought up--the Seine Valley… Read More

Melbourne.: National Gallery of Australia.. 2001.. Profuse coloured illustrations, vi + vii + viii +215pp., paperback in very good condition with French flaps. 29 x 24 cm. loosely inserted fliers of the NGA exhibition and an exclusive member viewing invitation card. Monet's extraordinary fascination with Japanese art continued throughout his lifetime and is reflected in his art. Monet's vision of nature was largely influenced by Japanese depictions at the time. Comparisons are explored throughout his evolution as a painter. .

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