Tuesday, February 24, 2015

What is an artist's intent?



Water Lilies by Monet


While listening to a radio interview about a film director, the reviewer compared his work to that of Monet's paintings, with this comment:


"They don't look like waterlilies; they look like how it feels to look at waterlilies."



Water Lilies
Claude Monet (French, Paris 1840–1926 Giverny) 1916–19
Dimensions: 51 1/4 x 79 in. (130.2 x 200.7 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Louise Reinhardt Smith, 1983