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Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)

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Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s) At the age of fifteen, Claude Monet was, by his own account, one of the most successful artists in Le Havre. Crowds would gather in the Norman port city to gawk at the pictures he sold through a framing shop: not paintings of haystacks or of the sea or water lilies, but slightly cruel caricatures of local bigwigs and minor celebrities. ...
Analyzing this article, several patterns are evident. First, the use of emotional exploitation is noticeable through the narrative about how Monet could have been a millionaire if he continued with caricatures (ARC-0018 Emotional Exploitation). Second, there's an element of distortion in the way Monet's later difficulties in selling Impressionism are connected to his early success with caricatures (ARC-0024 Ambiguity). Examining the roots of this narrative, it can be seen that Monet's career evo...