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Just about everyone has seen, whether live, in photographs or on postcards, some of Claude Monet's legendary drinking water lily paintings. They are simply in museums around the globe and are among the most beloved artwork of the past hundred years. Yet, ironically, these tranquilizing images were created amid horrendous personal turmoil and sadness. The extraordinarily dramatic history behind the creation of these paintings is little-known; Ross King's new audiobook explains to that account for the first time and, in the process, presents a persuasive and original portrait of one of your most beloved painters. King tells the entire history of the special circumstances where Monet created the Drinking water Lilies. As World Conflict I exploded within ability to hear distance of his house at Giverny, he was facing his own private crucible. In 1911, aged 71, his adored better half, Alice, died, plunging him into profound mourning. A year later he commenced heading blind. Then his eldest boy, Jean, dropped ill and died of syphilis, and his other boy was sent to leading to struggle for France. Within months a violent storm destroyed a lot of the garden that had been his inspiration for a few 20 years. At the same time, his reputation was under invasion, as a fresh generation of painters, led by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, were dazzling the skill world and expressing disgust with Impressionism. Against all this, fighting with each other his own self-doubt, unhappiness, and age, Monet found the wherewithal to construct an enormous new studio, 70 foot long and 50 foot high, to accommodate the gigantic canvases that could, he hoped, revive him. Using characters, memoirs, and other options not utilized by other biographers, and focusing on this amazing period in the artist's life, Ross King reveals a far more complex, more individuals, more romantic Claude Monet than has have you been portrayed and firmly places his drinking water lily task among the greatest achievements in the annals of art.
