William Amor — “Homage to Claude Monet”

As part of Heritage Days and the centennial of Claude Monet’s death, the Eure department is giving visual artist William Amor free rein to use his art to pay tribute to the illustrious Impressionist at the church in Giverny, where he is buried.

In Giverny, flowers were much more to Claude Monet than just a subject for his paintings: they were a laboratory of light, a living language capable of conveying the seasons, the hours of the day, and the movements of the soul.

To pay tribute to this legacy, William Amor brings into the church the colors of the garden that has vanished behind the stone walls. Where Monet observed the transformations of living things, the contemporary artist reveals those of matter. Discarded and then collected, plastic bags, bottles, and fragments of consumer goods are transformed with the patience of a jeweler into petals, corollas, foliage, and flashes of light.

A century separates Claude Monet and William Amor, but they seem to share the same conviction: beauty is not found in things themselves, but in the way we look at them. Monet revealed the infinite variations of light in a pond, a sky, or a flower. William Amor reveals the unexpected poetry of materials that our era considers worthless. Both invite us to see the world in a different light.