She's a Monet

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1) She's a Monet. She has radiant beauty. Part of Rosie Huntington-Whiteley's light is a joy that reflects from within her.


"It is that rare impressionist painting where people don't judge the light, but rather are judged by it." -- Alexandra Johnson on Claude Monet's painting: Terrace at Sainte-Adresse


2) She's a Monet because part of her beauty is especially uncommon and best understood by the impression or feeling we get from it. Words can be like carving meaning from oak with a butter knife; they take us further from conceiving.

Maybe we've seen it in a few very old people, because we're less distracted by physical beauty. There's something in the eyes.....Grace? We can break-out our biggest words for discussion, but for more understanding, it's back to the impression.


"I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did." -- Daniel Day-Lewis

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. -- Benjamin Disraeli



Before googling "She's a Monet," I couldn't imagine a negative connotation. While Urban Dictionary lists some positive use (by Monet fans like me), it seems that the unflattering use gets more votes. It gained traction in the movie Clueless (1995), which I vaguely remember, despite having too much fun in the nineties.

My retention didn't include the Monet reference, which wouldn't be added to my arsenal of witty quips. That's probably because, counter to the gist of the joke, my eyes have always found Monet's work to be beautiful at close range, on museum walls. I get it, but it was forgettable, as it didn't hold much water. Still, it might have caused inappropriate laughter :)

The backward use of "She's a Monet" may go all the way back to 1872, when young Claude Monet had key role in breaking the traditional mold with a new style, Impressionism. Like our Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, he was far beyond the protestation of his detractors. Rosie is a Monet for the most complimentary reasons.




http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/arts/artwork/claude-monet-paint ings-1861-187412.htm

...Monet's approach defined Impressionism as the artist's desire to capture the fugitive effects of nature. -- Debra N. Mancoff, PhD



Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is disarmingly pretty, and she allows no quarter while being devastatingly hot. But there is more to her extraordinary beauty. She has a soulful quality that eludes the grasp of thought, and definition through words. Monet's brush would better capture her charms. She's a Monet, even though I'm served impressions of Rosie's dreamy light via film.

The master filmakers who put Rosie in her first movie must have had impressions of her fugitive effects before we in the audience started loving her. With her fine magnetic qualities, Miss Huntington-Whiteley became the Monet of Mr. Spielberg and Mr. Bay. And the epic gift of their creative vision became that much more enriching for us.

The harder side of recent events is understandably more troubling for some. In time, after the fallout has settled, and history is accepted for what it is, the urge to wreck each others' preferred actress will fall away. Putting history squarely on the table will assist the evolution of perspective.




http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jun/20/steven-spielberg-megan-fox- transformers



Obviously "She's a Monet" (or other metaphors) can also be used to compliment Megan Fox, as for many she too has exceeded the perceptible criteria of beauty and rendered the psyche better served by impressions of her fugitive effects. The more that flags of Megan's praises are flown, the more it will help her rally to still greater success.

Trying to bully Rosie is counter-productive, especially to the integrity of the poster. As another gift from the UK, Earth continues to fearlessly sing, "All You Need Is Love."




http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/arts/artwork/claude-monet.htm

Monet was once asked why he chose the title Impression for the work that became the critical flash point in the first Impressionist exhibition. He answered that he had painted his own impression of the spectacle of a blood red sun cutting through the misty atmosphere rather than a portrait of Le Havre Harbor. -- Debra N. Mancoff, PhD






It is that rare Impressionist painting where people don't judge the light, but rather are judged by it. -- Alexandra Johnson on Claude Monet's painting: Terrace at Sainte-Adresse






The truth will always be. -- Pat Metheny