“Colorful Silence”

Collage, oil sticks, tempera and pencil on cardboard.

What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

#claudemonet

Few know that the painter Monet was close to spend 7 years of his life in Algeria, doing military service.

He should have done 7 years there, but falling ill with typhoid fever a year after he arrived prevented him from ending the full military time.

He commented in 1900 during an interview for “Le Temps”:

“The light and vivid colors of North Africa contained the germ of my future researches”.