Inspiration is a beautifully insightful agent, perpetuating a curiously animated acuity, and thus fostering creativity. Inspiration and creativity are two very good(kalos) things. On occasion, I stumble upon a particular interactive experience that will be just that; an inspiration. This particular interactive experience or journey, if you will, left me with quite an impression on this particular day. Celebrating Claude Monet for the historic exhibition at Grand Palais, Paris, the website is a collaboration between  Les 84 and faberNovel, both of whom, do simply marvelous work. The Impressionism of Claude Monet is enough of an inspiration, in and of itself, however when you combine his beautiful paintings along with a gracefully elegant and engaging web experience , it is simply wonderful!

This particular exhibition should be legendary, being the first significant exhibition in France of Claude Monet’s work in over 30 years. The setting will be the Grand Palais in Paris, from September 22, 2010 to January 24, 2011. It is noted that there will be over 200 paintings on display from both French and foreign museums. What a collection and experience this will be.

Given the combination of Monet’s realistic-aim in his paintings and the make-believe nature of the internet, I find a curious irony.

While traditional landscape artists painted what they saw in their mind, Claude Monet sought to paint the world exactly how he saw it, not how he knew it should look. So rather than painting a myriad of separate leaves, he depicted splashes of constantly changing light and color. It’s important to note that in this aspect, Monet belongs to the tradition of Renaissance illusionism. In depicting the natural world, he based his art on perceptual rather than conceptual knowledge.

While Monet essentially sought to depict the real world in his paintings, the internet world is not of the real world, for it is virtual, and thus the irony. The virtual world of monet2010.com is realized in a very well done Adobe Flash experience, with a nice flow, magical masking effects, a webcam journey of goodies, vivid imagery and much more. It is not just a website, but an interactive Journey into the works of Claude Monet. If you cannot make the real exhibit, the virtual exhibit will make quite an Impression.

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