Monet Impressions [Lyrical variations for a visual theme]

In a careful fusion of Eastern and Western aesthetics, the pond and Japanese bridge, built by Monet at his Villa at Giverny, appear from 1895 onwards as a source of inspiration for a body of work that would culminate in the great water lily cycle. During this time, every morning, before starting to paint, one of his gardeners would go out in a boat onto the pond to remove the excess leaves from the water lilies and clean them—as Jean Pierre Mourey recounts in 'Le vif de la sensation'—one by one! Conceived as a moving painting, this video creation aims to be a small tribute to the Master of Impressionism but also to the invisible, essential, and poetic work of his water gardeners, which, solely to impress our eyes and quench our thirst for beauty, continues to this day. The filming is a casual shot made without a tripod or professional equipment, and in its editing, black and white is combined with the Monetian color palette and an experiment with a hybridization of genres [documentary, visual music, appropriation, animation...] to try to account for different 'impressions', from the very brief evocation of some locations and motifs that served as a model for his paintings to the imaginary recreation of the immersion and emergence of the water lilies, all from a visual poetics intertwined with the lyricism of the music of the Spanish composer Eduardo Pérez Maseda, who kindly gave me the soundtrack.