Why Jackson Pollock Owed Everything to Claude Monet
Briefly

"In her lively new biography, Monet: The Restless Vision, Jackie Wullschlager offers a provocative explanation for this neglect... his genius was understood. Stunned by Monet's unerring vision and technical facility, his envious contemporaries tended to discount any deeper emotional or intellectual import."
"Monet was essentially ignored after his death. For decades, his wildly abstract late work went unsold; his astonishing, immersive murals of water lilies... were rarely mentioned."
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