MAD ENCHANTMENT

Claude Monet is perhaps the world's most beloved artist, and among all his creations, the paintings of the water lilies in his garde n at Giverny are most famous. Seeing them in museums around the world, viewers are transported by the power of Monet's brush into a peaceful world of harmonious nature. Monet himself intended them to provide an asylum of peaceful meditation. Yet, as Ross King re veals in his magisterial chronicle of both artist and masterpiece, these beautiful canvases belie the intense frustration Monet expe rienced at ...[Leer más]