Royal Academy,London
This exhibition of psychedelic modernist pastoral art is a ravishing delight and takes Monet out of the chocolate box, revealing one of art’s great humanists[br]I am falling. I am drowning in beauty. Perhaps this is what it feels like to teeter on the edge of a black gap. apart from it’s art that is pulling me into the void. Claude Monet’s Agapanthus Triptych (1916-19) reaches out to embrace the viewer in a shimmering world where soft reflections move on a bankless pond; a vast mirrored universe with lilies like supernovae.
This cosmic masterpiece, and its three components owned by a trio of American museums and reunited here to overwhelming effect,is the final disorientating thrill in an exhibition of psychedelic modernist pastoral art that is a ravishing delight from start to finish. If you deem an exhibition approximately gardens sounds a bit cosy or that Monet is just a pretty painter, then start at the close, and with this painting that disrupts time and space as experimentally as any installation. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com