MONET, SPACE, and FREEDOM
Peinture and FREE SPACES
The WATER LILIES CYCLE has been offered to the French State by Monet on the day that followed the Armistice of November 11, 1918 as a symbol for PEACE, the Water Lilies are installed at the Orangerie Museum in 1927.
The artist left nothing to chance. He planned out the forms, volumes, positioning, rhythm and the spaces between the various panels, the unguided experience of the visitor through several entrances, the daylight coming in from above that floods the space when the sun is out or which is more discreet when the sun is masked by clouds, thus making the paintings resonate according to the weather... A landscape of water creating "the illusion of an endless whole, of a wave with no horizon and no shore" as Monet put it. The representation of a continuum in time and space is materialised. In an equally suggestive way, the elliptical shape of the rooms draws out the mathematical symbol for infinity.
PEINTURE, ARCHITECTURE, are creating together a free space where we can experience freedom.
Are we creating the same experience of freedom in our offices? In our life? in our relationships? how much we can learn from MONET?
I love how much we can learn from Arts. And the relations from different arts are a symbol of the network we can create in our professions.
Multidisciplinary approach is the key to create great Innovations. Monet has been more than innovative with his WATER LILIES CYCLE. He has been able to change the story of art. And our story too. H