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Last weekend I saw this documentary, I, Claude Monet at our local movie venue called the Latchis theater. Claude Monet(1840-1926) is considered by many to be the founder of French Impressionistic painting.
This documentary on Monet was well done, however I found it a bit dreary, which ultimately was the strength of the film. I say that because the film was narrated from Monet's point of view as there was no other dialogue or at least that I recall. He talks his way through difficult times in his life such as his ailing and ultimately dying first wife and his struggle to pay his bills as well as his approach to his painting process.
The primary reason I saw this film was because someone threw a new, weekly, newspaper, all wet onto our driveway, two days before it's showing. The grainy photograph of Monet in the art and film section peaked my interest as I have always been curious about his house and garden in Giverny, France. The grainy photograph was the source for this pencil drawing.
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