I did the naughty thing of visiting the last two rooms first, perhaps as an act of perversity that would knowingly irritate art historians linear chronolgicial habits. Theres no reason why you can’t given in to utter indiscipline & go for what fancy first – these two rooms alone stand for some of the most awesome paintings ever made, … effect… Whats increadible is that much of what is unique & viseral about these paintings is how subtle the thinking and painting is actually mirage like Projections of light, like getting blasted with the full heat of the August Sun in Italy as you step off a plane. Or the shocking displacement from the beams of light off Venice’s white Marble Churches… To then have these physicalities considered

In other Venician paintings the architecture is found dissoving in water, this is an actuality & metaphour for paint and memory… Precision, design prestige or power rendedered into effect or impression… Into association, memory and extention into nebulous possiblities and encounters.

From that point on returning to the Start there are many rewards in the show. One of the great things is that you see how ideas, and confidence build from painting to painting. You see What it means to mature. In a language that was seen as wild and without precedent. The walls, delienating lines structure, effect and social meaning offer a contrast to spark off, push against or see what else can be brought to the world and work of painting as a whole.

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/past/the-credit-suisse-exhibition-monet-architecture

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