3/300: What is your favourite piece of art? What do you love about it?

have you seen Monet’s water lilies? i mean the ones in Paris. walk away form the Louvre, all the way to the back corner of the grounds. there’s a building there. almost an afterthought. it used to be a garden shed.

“Musée de l’Orangerie”

inside are two oval rooms, four paintings in each. skylights bathe the room in natural light. Monet wanted it that way. the shape of the rooms. the light.

he knew what he was doing.

in the first room, sunrise. the second, dusk. you just see blotches at first. purples, oranges, more shades of blue than you thought possible.

you feel before you see with Monet. “impressionism.” a peaceful calm. exhale. serenity. a soft, enveloping warmth as each massive painting becomes something. to you. for you.

that’s what art does, right? makes you feel?