Kate Bush talks Monet and AI in annual Christmas message [Video]

Kate Bush has drawn parallels between the work of French Impressionist painter Claude Monet and artificial intelligence in her latest Christmas message.

In the message, published on Bush’s website, the singer reveals that she visited the Monet exhibition London: Views of the Thames, which is currently running at the The Courtauld Gallery in central London. The exhibition, which closes on January 19, includes a number of paintings begun between 1899 and 1901, on three separate visits to the city.

“It made me smile to read that although he sketched them while he was in London, he took them home and finished them off in France,” writes Bush. “Ha ha! So all is not as it seems – that sun-starved pink was actually lavish Giverny pink.

“Is that us? Standing in awe at the dawn of AI, the symbol of modernity, as smog was for Monet at that time in the newly industrial London? Do we only see the …