@David de Brequet well most if no all "artist" and mind the quotes, know nothing or disregard science completely. yet here we are figuring things out you cant possibly have the knowledge to differentiate. im a quite succesful gallerist and artist too

@David de Brequet when you say "see as artists do" you think youre like monet and no artist is a clone of one another. monet saw like monet. "you see like you"

Monet's surgery occurred two decades after he painted the London pictures....we definitely consider all of this in preparing the exhibition. Please see this interesting article: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4408507/

Monet utilized full-color seeing which is the way that traditional impressionists painted. Henry Hensche and his methods are probably the closest we have to Monet's techniques. Paintings are built up in layers as Monet would have done. There are three good books on full-color seeing. One is by Susan Sarback and two are by Lois Griffel (Cape Cod School of Art). I learned to see color by using Hensche's techniques. There really are blues in grass and violets in a tree trunk as well as a multitude of other colors. There isn't anything scientific about how Monet painted. He and the other impressionists did not use Chevreul's techniques of complements to dull colors and so on. They painted the colors they saw. Monet, et al., likely did finish their works in the studio. But they had trained their memory.

That wasn’t until the last 5 years of his life though. He did most of his paintings before then. He had a lot of trouble painting toward the end of his life and struggled to get through his lilly paintings.

😅 to talk to after life? I mean, hes dead already.

That’s exactly what people say when they aren’t smart enough to get it.

@@kaymuldoon3575 Ah, thanks for that. I always suspected that I was stupid, thanks for confirming my suspicions.

@@kaymuldoon3575 elitism is blinding

hear ya. But maybe consider that they are passionate curators of some complex knowledge- between history / contexting to sharing significance Lastly it takes a next level skill to explain to info yo newbies to amateurs to professionals.