Thursday, June 14, 2007

Monet

You have to say he was good.

Very good.

Even great.

You know he was one of the first artists to paint shadows not in black or grey but in colors?

Yet some of his pictures look a bit murky grey.

The foggy London series? Maybe the old oil is oxidising. Also he was losing his sight and with it his sense of color.

Did he make money?

Money? Monet? Pots. But not as much as the art collectors nowadays. They do well out of him.

Oh and the print sellers selling copies of his water lilies to Japanese. You know they stopped me from taking a photograph of one their copies
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