The great Paris exhibition of works by Monet that just ended and the television broadcast of the very successful series that Nina Companeez has spent Research , reminds us how this great painter is present in the work of Zola under the figure of Claude Lantier in The work and that of Proust under the figure of Elstir .
It was long believed that the model Elstir was the English painter Whistler. It is generally accepted that it is none other than Monet.
The description of the painter is naturally treated differently by Zola or Proust but obviously that is what great artist who has inspired their characters. While Zola
engages in a realistic, precise, almost brutal and entomological Lantier Proust, as usual painted in subtle touches his Elstir.
It's the same for wives.
Christine Lantier is sacrificed to art by her husband, while Gabrielle Elstir is transformed by the artistic genius of his companion. In
The work , Zola describes accurately some paintings by Monet, where Proust suggests that marine landscapes, cathedrals and water lilies of the artist
.
Moreover, in Zola, Monet Lantier embodies in its infancy at the time of his early paintings and his efforts to establish itself in the microcosm of galleries and exhibitions; Elstir , however, is Monet at the hour of his triumph.
To close this little reminder incursions writers in paint, a few words for those who would criticize absolutely adapting Nina Companeez . The latter pointed out that humor is not absent from the work of Proust's madeleine
Little Nina Companeez smells of lacquer Elnett doped Proustian irony: "I read the search to 17 years in the hairdresser under the helmet hair curlers, and I m'esclaffais. "She insists " Proust himself, writhing with laughter reading passages to her friends. It infuriates me that in fact a myth is intellectually inaccessible, while, at home, everything is feeling and humor. "
..." Everything is feeling and humor "A beautiful injunction, in painting as in writing.
It was long believed that the model Elstir was the English painter Whistler. It is generally accepted that it is none other than Monet.
The description of the painter is naturally treated differently by Zola or Proust but obviously that is what great artist who has inspired their characters. While Zola
engages in a realistic, precise, almost brutal and entomological Lantier Proust, as usual painted in subtle touches his Elstir.
It's the same for wives.
Christine Lantier is sacrificed to art by her husband, while Gabrielle Elstir is transformed by the artistic genius of his companion. In
The work , Zola describes accurately some paintings by Monet, where Proust suggests that marine landscapes, cathedrals and water lilies of the artist
.
Moreover, in Zola, Monet Lantier embodies in its infancy at the time of his early paintings and his efforts to establish itself in the microcosm of galleries and exhibitions; Elstir , however, is Monet at the hour of his triumph.
To close this little reminder incursions writers in paint, a few words for those who would criticize absolutely adapting Nina Companeez . The latter pointed out that humor is not absent from the work of Proust's madeleine
Little Nina Companeez smells of lacquer Elnett doped Proustian irony: "I read the search to 17 years in the hairdresser under the helmet hair curlers, and I m'esclaffais. "She insists " Proust himself, writhing with laughter reading passages to her friends. It infuriates me that in fact a myth is intellectually inaccessible, while, at home, everything is feeling and humor. "
..." Everything is feeling and humor "A beautiful injunction, in painting as in writing.
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