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Monet

Monet: Impression Sunrise

National Gallery of Australia
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12 June 2019
Monet: Impression Sunrise (National Gallery of Australia)

What makes this Monet exhibition different from any other Monet exhibition? This was the question at the forefront of my mind as I approached the National Gallery of Art’s exhibition Monet: Impressionism Sunrise. As one would expect, it is an exhibition about painting – colour, brushstroke, the rendering of light and dark by artists who ...

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Monet’s Garden: The Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris edited by Marianne Mathieu et al.

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July–August 2013, no. 353
Mark Dober reviews 'Monet's Garden: The Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris' by Marianne Mathieu et al.

Claude Monet as an emotive artist? Hitherto, I have viewed Monet’s painting – or at least Monet the Impressionist – as sensual but detached. Having seen Monet’s Garden at the National Gallery of Victoria, I am now of the view that the artist’s later painting (the exhibition focuses on the work made at Giverny from 1893 until the artist’s death in 1926) has a subliminal and even expressionist dimension. How else to characterise the elegiac quality of the wonderful water lily series and the late abstract-like garden paintings made with such abandon? Moreover, having learned more about Monet himself at this time, I appreciate that he was far more challenged by life experiences than I had presumed, in spite of the tremendous critical and commercial success he enjoyed in the last decades of his career.

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