Eric T. Haskell, professor of French studies and interdisciplinary humanities and director of the Clark Humanities Museum, Scripps College Claremont University Center, California
The relationship between Claude Monet’s painterly techniques and gardening practices as he used them to create over five hundred canvases in the landscape at Giverny from the 1890s until his death in 1926 is the focus of this lecture. Central to our concerns is an examination of how Monet moved beyond representation to abstraction and thus prefigured the Modern aesthetic in the most subtle of terms.
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