Monet and Architecture, National Gallery, London, review: these familiar paintings fling themselves out
Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The best rooms are the last two, and they are the largest, the ones where the paintings stop looking like a sequence of fussy studies, and are given the space to fling themselves out tall and wide with tremendous panache. They also contain the most familiar paintings of all, the ones we know him best for: Rouen Cathedral, its west front dissolving in an almost hallucinatory dither of light. Fumy London beside the Thames, with the eeriness of parliament’s Victoria Tower rising up from the waters, the entire scene mired in, muffled by, pollution – and what dazzling light effects all the filthy pollution treats us to!
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