Alice, I hope you don’t mind me posting this. I had not realised that the image would appear until I had posted it. I thought only the link would appear.
In looking for a painting for this project I came across two videos which some of you may have seen but, if not, you might find interesting. The first one, which is short, was poignant I thought. I had not envisaged Monet painting with the sound of WW1 gunfire within his hearing. It is an RA YouTube video about Monet’s Agapanthus Triptych
The second one, which is quite long, (I particularly enjoyed the first part with beautiful uplifting cinematography of the gardens at Giverny) is Documentary: Painting the modern garden from Monet to Matisse, 2016 RA Exhibition
Thank you so much for posting these. I had no idea that Monet was painting so close to the battlefields. A strange tension between creating so much beauty amidst so much ugliness.
