Painting with Monet

A major reassessment of the methods and meaning of impressionism

At pivotal moments in his career, Claude Monet would go out with a fellow artist, plant his easel beside his friend’s, and paint the same scene. Painting with Monet closely examines pairs of such works, showing how attention to this practice raises tantalizing new questions about Monet’s art and about impressionism as a movement.

Is impressionist painting an objective attempt to capture reality as it really is? Or is it a subjec...