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Claude Monet Years at His Giverny Garden
Claude Monet Years Before Giverny Gardens
French Impressionist Gardens
The novel is as compelling as Cowell brings the 19th century Parisian era of Impressionism to life again. Aside from being a romantic love story, Claude and Camille offers readers a vivid picture of the advent and eventual rise of Impressionism movement and a convincing portrait of Monet, the artist, at the center of it.
Once in Paris, he was confronted with extreme poverty [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], an art world that refused to validate his style, and a war that led him away from his home and friends. There was a brighter side: he formed enduring friendships with Renoir, Cézanne, Pissarro, Manet, and Bazille – a group who together would come to be known as the French Impressionists, and who supported each other in extreme needs. And, there was Monet's lifelong love, Camille Doncieux, a beautiful, upper-class Parisian girl who gave up her privileged life and be with the defiant young painter.
Claude and Camille lived in wretched rooms, often suffered from dire poverty. Despite leaving her for long periods to paint in the countryside, she supported him. She was his passionate love, best friend, mother of his two children, and his inspiration. But Camille had her own secrets. Although she never stopped loving him deeply [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], she was not immune to the loneliness and challenges of being a struggling painter's wife.
Romantic Love Story Rich in Impressionism
While the world mainly knows Monet as the founder of Impressionism, his paintings and garden at Giverny, Cowell brings back her readers to a determined handsome young man, passionate for his art, the need of love and art-loving patrons of his paintings to sustain his art, his life. The author engages her readers to Camille, Monet’s muse whom he painted in the green promenade dress, Camille ou la femme a la robe verte, or The Woman in a Green Dress.
As Monet captured “reality” of the ever-changing nature of light and color in his canvases, so did Cowell write in a delicate manner through her caring and elegant prose. Claude and Camille is a love story, a beautiful one. Just as Cowell wrote with intense admiration for Mozart’s genius in Marrying Mozart,
Claude and Camille is a moving and brilliant historical novel by award winning author, Stephanie Cowell. Claude is none other than Claude Oscar Monet, founder of French Impressionism. Camille is Camille Doncieux, his model, mistress, and later, wife. As the author puts it [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Claude and Camille is “a love story of the highest romantic order.”
Claude and Camille
In the 19th century, a young man, Claude Monet, decided that he would rather endure a difficult life painting landscapes than take over his father’s nautical supplies business in a French seaside town. With only a burning desire to create a new style of art that rejected the Classical Realism of the time, young Monet set off for Paris against his family’s wishes.
Cowell altered some events for dramatic continuity and strength. Her imagination brilliantly created a romantic love story in Claude and Camille without diminishing historical facts. To readers familiar with Monet’s work, Cowell offers moments of Monet’s Les Nympheas, Luncheon on the Grass, Garden at Argenteuil, and many more paintings at Giverny gardens.
The novel focuses on Monet's two passions: his art and Camille, alongside strong friendships with Impressionists who stood by him through all kinds of extreme difficulties. Readers who are familiar with Monet and his art become more engaged as Cowell makes alive her characters.