Switch gears to Claude Monet. He invented Impressionism, which critics called “ugly” at first. Why? Because he painted light, not details. His water lilies? They’re just blobs of color that somehow feel magical.
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Monet painted the same haystack 25 times. Twenty-five. He wanted to catch every mood of light. Sunrise, sunset, fog—he was obsessed. And his garden at Giverny? He built it just to paint it. That’s dedication, or maybe a beautiful kind of insanity.
Stand close to a Monet painting, and it’s a mess. Step back, and poof—it becomes a dream. That’s the trick of Impressionism: reality is just a suggestion.
