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ON MONET'S EXHIBITION-STUTTGART 2006

22nd August, 2006.

 

What a pleasant day it was today! For the second time I

visited the Monets ehi"ition in the #tate $allery o% #tuttgart. I

once more had the chance to admire some o% the words o% the

French great master. &ne thing I really en'oy is that o% Monets

o"session o% repeating the same moti% in di%%erent light and(or

climatic conditions and sometimes %rom slightly di%%erent

viewpoint. In this way I thin) the moti% *or the theme, i% you

 pre%er+ ta)es a distinctive identity under various lighting and

weather conditions.*sunshine, mist ,rain, sunset, midday. etc.+,itchanges dimensions and mood and "ecomes alive with colour

vi"rations that sha)e the atmosphere around it. In this respect the

human mind moves %urther a%ield into adventurous possi"ilities o%

creations within the "oundaries o% a given %orm which provides the

cornerstone o% the idea o% the initial inspiration.

A many academic thin) that the Monets canvases o% the

-ouen athedral is the ultimate and pro"a"ly the uni/ue eample

o% the idea o% eploring the light and shadow o% the %orm hecolour schemes and the su"se/uent com"inations, as mastered "y

Monets ingenuity "rings along a num"er o% variations, so in each

occasion the same moti% appears in a a new dress radiating a

range o% moods and %eelings.

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%or the years to come .he 1aystac) at hiverny is a %estival o%

light and shadow. he well "alanced composition "rings the viewer

straight and without the slightest hesitation into the scene and

into the activities o% the people there. It is the children playing

around in the %ield. It is the lady holding the red um"rella protecting hersel% %rom the power%ul sunshine. .It is the two

haystac)s the one nearest to the viewer ,as the main theme, and

the other ,in the mid ground, "oth glowing with light and rested on

their own colour%ul shadows .It is the trees in the "ac)ground and

the unseen trees on the le%t casting their shadows hal% across the

%ield. It is all these that ma)e the "est possi"le %rame %or the eye to

wander and play with "oth people and nature.

8oy, light and shadow emerging,From the haystac) 'umping out

In the air to em"race the children

And play with them and clim" up the trees

And then step slowly down to rest

on the warm earth.

 "y $eorge 9emetracopoulos 2006