中文简介：

本书强调了晚期印象派的典范克劳德·莫奈（Claude Monet）的作品与抽象画家马克·罗斯科（Mark Rothko）等人的作品之间惊人的对应关系。

本书通过前所未有的对话，探讨了这两位艺术家相隔近半个世纪的作品之间不可思议的相似之处，以及他们风格之间的差异的意义。莫奈传达了他对自然的直接印象，而罗斯科则让观众陷入了他所叠加和交织的色彩深处。本书最初是为了配合吉维尼印象派博物馆的展览而构思的，并配有60幅按颜色组织的复制品。通过知名评论家的分析，这种对抗的背景是对两位最伟大的绘画大师的作品的新认识，并对他们的作品之所以具有内在的**性的本质提供了新的见解，同时也挑战了观众对抽象和现代性的看法。

英文简介：

Recent research on late impressionism has highlighted the surprising correspondences between the work of impressionist paragon Claude Monet and that of abstract painters such as Mark Rothko.

This book offers an unprecedented dialogue between the paintings of Monet and Rothko, two artists who explored the frontiers of abstraction. It explores the uncanny similarities between their works, painted almost half a century apart, as well as the significance of the differences between the master artists' styles. Monet conveyed the immediacy of his impressions of nature, while Rothko plunged the viewer into the depths of colors that he superimposed and interwove.

And yet this book―originally conceived to accompany an exhibition at the Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny and illustrated with sixty chromatically organized reproductions―reveals an undeniable relationship between their pictorial universes, challenging the viewer's perception of abstraction and modernity. This confrontation, contextualized through the analysis of renowned critics, sheds new light on the oeuvre of two of the greatest masters of painting and offers fresh insight into the essence of what makes their works so inherently original.