[New-Poetry] Claude Monet

[JforJames at aol.com]

Monet's serial painting of the Rouen cathedral,
the poplars, etc., are my favorites. It's a wonderful
experience when you get to see a group of 5 
or more together in a gallery rooom. Alex, I'm sure knows, 
that the impressionist & post-impressionists, in their
time, were roundly disparaged are 'barbarous
artists'. We see the technique immitated now,
and it seems conventional practice. As what weekend 
painters and yourg art students do derivatively.
 
One of things that endeared me to Monet was that
he had a 'studio boat' built. A boat where he could push off
from the banks of the river, drift along, doing  his paintings,
assured he wouldn't be interrupted by neighbors or
other artists..
 
Perhaps, my eyes have gone bad.
Finnegan
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