MONET y ARCHITECTURE

In an innovative approach, Richard Thomson considers Claude Monets paintings of buildings in their environment, offering a reapprai sal of an artist more often associated with landscapes, seascapes, and gardens. Buildings fulfilled various roles in Monets canvase s/ some are chiefly compositional devices while others throw into sharp contrast the forms of man-made construction against the irre gularity of nature, or suggest the absent presence of humans.