Claude Monet (1840-1926) devoted the last 25 years of his career to paintings of the Japanese-style pond and gardens of his house in Giverny, France. Two of these luminous panels---Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond,- a mural-sized triptych, and -Water Lilies,- a single canvas--are among the most well-known and beloved works in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. The aim of these paintings, according to the artist, was to supply -the illusion of an endless whole, of water without horizon or bank.- These late works were for many years less appreciated than Monet's classic...
Claude Monet (1840-1926) devoted the last 25 years of his career to paintings of the Japanese-style pond and gardens of his house in Giverny, France. ...
In Monet Reconstructed, the artist and poet Paul takes eight works by Claude Monet (Haystacks, At the End of Summer, Houses of Parliament, Stormy Sky, Impression, Sunrise, Poplars at the River Epte, Snow at Argenteuil, The Magpie, Water Lily Pond, and Women in the Garden) and abstracts them through pixelation to reveal average color distributions over given areas of the image, from the entirety of the painting as one solid color to a "full resolution" image of the painting. Through these eleven stages of resolution, attention is...
In Monet Reconstructed, the artist and poet Paul takes eight works by Claude Monet (Haystacks, At th...
