There is no such thing as too much Monet | Jonathan Jones

Ignore the melancholic simpers of art snobs. Monet may be accessible but he is also a modernist who invented utterly new ways of seeing the world

Poor Richard Shone. You can almost see the editor of the Burlington Magazine adjust his overtight cravat as he moans to the Times that “I think there is some fatigue with Monet”.

Yes, fatigue, rather like the fatigue one feels when one’s butler expects one to bring one’s own copy of the collected art criticism of Roger Fry from the library.

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