. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. laqueduc db marly (By permission of Mtssrs. Georges Petit) BY CLAUDE MONHTlOI Claude Monet. VUE DE HOLLANDE (By permission of Messrs. Georges Petit) These painters to whom I am alluding transport,project themselves into Nature, and consequentlycan give us nothing but their personal note,the sort of dominant which is proper to everyman. Claude Monet, on the other hand, has everstriven to draw all Nature within himself. Suc-cessively, he himself has been all the objects ofhis contemplation and his desire. Monet has been sun,
. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. laqueduc db marly (By permission of Mtssrs. Georges Petit) BY CLAUDE MONHTlOI Claude Monet. VUE DE HOLLANDE (By permission of Messrs. Georges Petit) These painters to whom I am alluding transport,project themselves into Nature, and consequentlycan give us nothing but their personal note,the sort of dominant which is proper to everyman. Claude Monet, on the other hand, has everstriven to draw all Nature within himself. Suc-cessively, he himself has been all the objects ofhis contemplation and his desire. Monet has been sun, ice, fog, flowers,tinted waters, lofty trees,rugged rocks, cathedralsgilded by the light, sheavesburnt up by the canicularheat, or benumbed bywinters cold. And yet,being all these things, hehas remained it is that a picture byClaude Monet—even oneof a series, identical in size,in drawing and in propor-tion—is never quite likeanother, while all themasters pictures bear hismark to such an extentthat one might know themfrom afar. All this, let me repeat,is the work of a manwho describes nothing he has not seen, but whohas judged exactly how m
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