London
The French Impressionist Claude Monet’s paintings of landscape, lush gardens and the sea as captured in sunlight or through veils of atmospheric effects have largely defined our perception of his art and its appeal to modern viewers. Though scholars have studied his works through the lens of history or as harbingers of 20th-century abstraction, a fresh approach to Monet’s exceedingly familiar painting has become a rare phenomenon. The National Gallery’s “Monet & Architecture,” organized by Prof. Richard Thomson...