Re: Monet Fusing Surprise

[P3D Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997
>From: Robert Linnstaedt writes:
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>The Kimbell Museum (Fort Worth) is hosting a showing of Monet's paintings of
>the Mediterranean coast of France and Italy (the Riviera) from the 1880s to
>early 1900s.  Magnificent!  But oh, what a surprise for the
>Free-view-enabled.  ;-)
>....................
>I spent this afternoon going about the gallery, fusing Monet paintings in the
>cross-eyed fashion.  (It's the only way to free-fuse two full-size canvases
>separated by several feet).  Surprise!  Some of the paintings form stereo
>pairs!!
>
>But even more exciting, this exercise (difficult, but worthy) showed me that
>Monet's works are very exacting in scale, dimension, and position.  Almost as
>if he used a camera to record the scene before painting it; they are _that_
>perfect from one painting to the next.  Monet was a great master, but could
>he have achieved this kind of perfection with only his eyes, brain, and
>hands?  This is a mystery.
>

****  I can't enlighten the mystery except that the hand made stereo pairs
I've helped create were done in stages with the basic structure made very
repeatable. It's possible Monet even used freeviewing to check the accuracy
of his work or at least used a master drawing identically in each of his series.

What an interesting exhibition! Now I want to see it too! Are his brush
strokes also that closely exact? Or was it mostly in the image layout? The
only way to coordinate the brush strokes is to do similar strokes close
together in time on each of the canvases, perhaps freeviewing to make sure
they are accurately placed. Of course various mirror devices have been
invented for the copying of artwork, but I have no idea what method Money
may have used. I would be very interested in learning more about this
phenomenon!!!

Thanks for sharing this discovery!

Larry Berlin

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