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From Instantaneities To The Eternal: Shifting Pictorial Temporalities In Monet's Rouen Cathedral, Kaleigh Paige Winchell
From Instantaneities To The Eternal: Shifting Pictorial Temporalities In Monet's Rouen Cathedral, Kaleigh Paige Winchell
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This paper focuses on Monet's Rouen Cathedral paintings, a set of canvases painted by the artist between February 1892 and May 1895. This series has traditionally been hailed as Monet's greatest and most significant, but historical scholarship has addressed the series within an Impressionist framework. However, this paper argues instead that the Cathedral paintings no longer represented Monet as an Impressionist, but instead as an artist with entirely original and different goals for whom the nature of time had taken on new meaning. Where Monet began his endeavors in seriality with a feverish focus on the temporary and elusive - …