Jane Hirshfield, Mill Valley
A: Monet shared his painter contemporaries' enthusiasm for Japanese woodblock prints. He collected more than 200 of them. Their influence seems blatant in his famous early portrait of his wife in samurai-figured kimono, at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, but more atmospheric than conceptual as regards his late work.
Monet's serial views of Chartres Cathedral appear to have grown more out of his obsession with the equation of time and light, with describing them as a sort of aqueous medium through which vision and things seen swim toward one another.
This article appeared on page F - 7 of the San Francisco Chronicle
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