""Floating City,""
""fascination with water and light,""
""dividing the canvas into rectangular zones,""
"" Look hard and you regret even more that Monet never returned to La Serenissima.""
An exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum presents the largest New York showing of Claude Monet's paintings in 25 years, focusing on his Venice period. Monet traveled to Venice a few months shy of his sixty-eighth birthday and spent two extraordinarily productive months there. He produced approximately 37 works during that stay, 19 of which are on display. The Venice paintings continue Monet's fascination with water and light while contrasting with his water-lily canvases by dividing the surface into rectangular zones. These zones alternate between looming palazzos and shimmering canals. Monet never returned to La Serenissima.
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