Woman With A Parasol — Claude Monet
An ode to contemplation and admiration of the female figure.
When we talk about Monet, it is impossible to separate him from the impressionist movement, of which he was a key figure and one of the pioneers and driving forces.
Much has been written about his work, which is an impressive study of color and the effect of light on objects. Monet wanted to get to the germ of painting and broke with the structure of lines to let himself be carried away by color.
The Impressionists saw that it was precisely light that, by illuminating an object, gave the things their shape and colors. Without light, there is no form, color, or object. The form loses its consistency, and the light-color combination gives an organic sense to paint.
Without interpretations or contexts, this essential and direct deduction became the raison d’être of the impressionist paintings. It is worth remembering that Monet’s painting gave the name to the whole movement.
As time passed, the French painter’s style became more radical, reaching a point where forms lost all their content and merged in an absolute play of light and colors.
In this transition towards the purest luminous expression, Monet made works such as Woman with a Parasol, a painting in…
