Do not look for factual comparisons, there are none.
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) saw paintings by the old Monet, a master who died when he was 23 and who, in his last days, saw badly, making his garden almost shapeless when he concentrated on his flowerbeds, his foliage or the reflections of the water lily pond (nympheas).
But these two were on opposite sides of the Atlantic and never met.
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At the Museum of Impressionisms in Giverny (Eure), a stone's throw from the house-workshop of the patriarch of Impressionism, its director Cyrille Sciama, a brilliant historian of 19th and early 20th century painting - we largely owe him the recent James Tissot retrospective at the Musée d'Orsay -, has installed thirteen of their works in a common path.
Where the works of one and the other are held at a respective and respectful distance, certainly dialoguing but from time to time, by their "all over" colors, their tonal harmony, their vibration, acceptance...
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