re: #176 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

Because Impressionism is not so much about what you see as how you see it. That finally hit me while lying in a field in France on a hot early summer day: the heat rising up from the fields made the trees shimmer and move.

I always thought Monet’s work looked “rained-on” and diluted. I don’t know why. Kinda like there was too much water vapor between my eye and the work. Which might be a bit like your experience.