MONET

Downstairs from the Claudel exhibition, there is a room crammed full of Monets. Being more of a Renaissance girl/Modigliani groupie myself, I’m not a great fan of Monet’s, but what really struck me was that between 1914 -1919, he seemed to have had an obsession with painting waterlilies. WHY? And why, I wondered, wasn’t he jolly well fighting in the WAR? Until I realised that he was born in 1840 and, anyway, might have been a conscientious-objector.