'Women in the Garden' by Claude Monet.
The Impressionist painter, Claude Monet evolved a method of depicting form by accumulating a mass of brush-strokes which are reconstructed and completed by the spectator to produce the effect he is suggesting. This again was a vital new element in art: the realisation that the viewer has to participate, that he has to build his understanding of a painting, just as he 'reads' a landscape. This attitude was essential to the future of art. It was only because Monet destroyed the old, limited, arbitrary concept of immutable form that the painters of the 20th century were able to build new visual structures.
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