The House Seen from the Rose Garden 1924

Claude Monet made "The House Seen from the Rose Garden" with oil on canvas, and you can see it here in the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris. The way he builds up the surface with strokes of warm colors is amazing, it’s all about process, you know? Looking closely, the paint has a real physicality. It’s not about hiding the work, but reveling in it, thick and textured. There's a spot where orange and green meet that vibrates, like the colors are actually buzzing against each other. You can almost feel the energy of Monet’s hand. This piece reminds me of Turner, with that same obsession with light. And like both of them, it's not about capturing something perfectly, but about embracing the ambiguity and the ongoing conversation that is art.