A Visit from Aunty Metaphysical

Monet captured, utilized, mourned the tragic gap between the phenomenal and the noumenal. He stirred his hands childishly in appearances at the expense of reality. He mistook the apparent for the real. He discovered the reality of appearance. He preferred sensuous experience to objects because the sensuous is pleasant or easy or because he was too sophisticated or stupid or vile to appreciate permanent and fundamental values. Monet found wisdom in considered reflection on otherwise fleeting impressions. Monet needed glasses. Monet saw through the myth of the noumenal to the organizing function of human perception. He painted the very structure of the human brain. He painted souls.

What does Aunty say?

Monet painted pictures.