The Paradox Of Painting

Here I am trying to paint moving water in the Green River at Mount Hope Park in Williamstown, MA.

I've been reading the book Monet: Nature Into Art by John House.  He writes, "The idea of instantaneity, as Monet confronted it around 1890, reflects the ultimate paradox of the painter's practice, the point at which painting is forced to acknowledge its categorical disjunction from the perceived world: the work of art, produced over a period of time and viewed in time, transcends the instant which ostensibly it claims to capture."   8x10 inches, oil on linen panel.