The House Seen from the Rose Garden 1924

Claude Monet made "The House Seen from the Rose Garden" with oil paint, dabbing the surface with greens, blues, and mauves. Just imagine him, squinting in the sun, trying to capture not just the house but the light dancing through the rose garden. I think he was trying to figure out how to translate what he saw into feeling. Look at those little strokes of color, how they build up to create something almost touchable. It’s like he’s asking, "How do I make you feel the breeze, smell the roses, without actually being there?" There’s a gorgeous tension between representation and abstraction in the painting. The house is there, but it’s also dissolving into pure color. Like the sensation of a memory. All these painters, including me, are in an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas across time, inspiring one another’s creativity. Painting allows multiple interpretations and meaning over fixed or definitive readings.