Monet: the Late Years February 14, 2019 at the deYoung Museum in San Francisco Monet, the old man, mad about painting. What a ferocious appetite the primal urge to mash color with a brush He used very fine linen on large paintings time traveller at the end of 2 I love to see how paintings will sometimes animate the audience. These shapes, these colors, this darkness and light; Your eyes open to them and in a brief moment they become living thoughts flitting about in your present and your memory. Anne took this brilliant photograph