Claude Monet (1840-1926) lifted Impressionism to a new level. His gardens are now preserved until eternity in his paintings.
The paintings in Kunsthaus are a few outside Paris. At Orangerie (in Paris) a huge collection of water lilies covers the walls of a room.
At Kunsthaus, a Swiss student sitting alone in one of the rooms, (a boy of 15-16 yrs), when asked by me and Rumi on his views about the hugh painting, whispered, "its amazing how Monet, by alternating between light and dark, creates movement."
Cézanne’s famous summing up is still the best: Monet, he said, “is only an eye, but good God, what an eye.”
