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Impressionism · c. 1916
Claude Monet 1840–1926
The Met · New York
In his Giverny pond Monet found a lifetime's subject — water, light and reflection dissolving toward pure abstraction.
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In his last decades, in the village of Giverny, Claude Monet dug a water garden — a pond, a Japanese bridge, willows — and then spent nearly thirty years painting it, again and again. By now his eyesight was failing to cataracts. There is no horizon here, no bank, no sky except as reflection.
He has tilted your gaze straight down, into the water.
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