Monet in Normandy

A little bit ago, Sharon and I went to the North Carolina Art Museum in Raleigh, to see the Monet in Normandy exhibit. There were about 50 paintings by Monet, borrowed from public and private collections from around the world. I’m really glad I had the opportunity to go. I recognized some of the paintings, so it was especially exciting to see the originals. At first, I was going to say “it was surreal”, but this would have been a terribly inaccurate pun. [Claude Monet (1840-1926) was a founder of the Impressionism movement whereas the Surrealism emerged in the 1920s.]

The museum staff did an excellent job of laying out the exhibit by grouping works of similar dates and subjects. In addition, a photograph or painting by another artist would occasionally complement Monet’s work. One of the more famous paintings was “Garden at Sainte-Adresse” (1867) on loan from “The Met”. This one seemed familiar, and there’s probably a good chance I had seen it before in NYC.