Happy first day of fall! 🍁 By the 1920s, artist Claude Monet was seeing his garden in Giverny through a very different lens—quite literally. In “The Japanese Footbridge,” thick swirls of maroon, rust, and orange nearly blur the bridge into abstraction. For some critics, this bold shift was shocking—even seen as a sign of the artist’s declining eyesight. To Monet, these late works weren’t a break from the past, but a continuation of his lifelong pursuit: capturing how the world felt to him in th
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Happy first day of fall! 🍁 By the 1920s, artist Claude Monet was seeing his garden in Giverny through a very different lens—quite literally. In “The Japanese Footbridge,” thick swirls of maroon, rust, and orange nearly blur the bridge into abstraction. For some critics, this bold shift was shocking—even seen as a sign of the artist’s declining eyesight. To Monet, these late works weren’t a break from the past, but a continuation of his lifelong pursuit: capturing how the world felt to him in th
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