Only light , into light … water reflections … Claude MonetThe Seine At Vetheuil Effect

Only light , into light … water reflections … Claude MonetThe Seine At Vetheuil Effect Of Sun After Rain -  Claude Monet  1879….  Monet pursued something quite different. Looking at this landscape, it occurred to me that there is ‘nothing’ there. No thing. No figure, no ground. I looked at the water thinking, ah, there is the water underneath the reflection of the tree. But there is no water. There is no tree either, just the blue-green light that we see where the tree presumably is.And down where the water also presumably is (the painting doesn’t exactly care one way or another), this blue and green reflected light plays on the reflected light from the sky, interrupted by flecks of light from clouds and  hills and rooftops. Only light is painted here, and the light is not truly grounded in anything or on anything, it is just there where we see it. And we sense it is constantly changing though there is just unmoving pigment in front of our eyes.None of the other Impressionists painted like this, only light, into light. They painted things immersed in light or caressed by light or changing in light. This is something else, a world of relativity, of vision that delights at a very high level while posing very challenging questions about the fluid nature of realty. Source :https://destroud.wordpress.com -- source link

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