Monet - by Salva Rubio (Hardcover)
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"<b>STARRED REVIEW</b> Monet has loudly maintained, all along, that he's the leader of the impressionists. But in 1880, six years after the first impressionist show scandalized the critics, Renoir convinces him he can't continue fighting old battles. Like Renoir and also Sisley, C�zanne, and Pissarro, Monet has to make a living, and staying with the impressionists is guaranteed poverty. Besides, most critics were starting to warm up to impressionism. Before Efa and Rubio get there, though, they dwell on Monet's early years of struggle, beginning with his 1862 arrival in Paris and extending just beyond his first wife Camille's death, in 1879. And well they should, for Monet's long road to success is a real-life artistic legend that ranks with those of Beethoven, Brahms, Van Gogh, and very few others. Framing it with Monet's double cataract-removal in 1923, Rubio and Efa insert several masterpieces in the background and let their subject's obsession with light enrich their fine work of mainstream European comics. An appendix discusses the background paintings, the originals of which appear alongside Efa's adaptations and sometimes by themselves. Because Efa injects so much of Monet into his own style and Rubio presents fact as fact and conjecture as conjecture, many may think this the best of the many recent comics biographies of artists." -- <i>Booklist </i>
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