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At this triptych’s center, lilies bloom in a luminous pool of green and blue that is frothed with lavender-tinged reflections of clouds. Thick strokes in darker shades seep into the left panel, while on the right, sky and water are gently swallowed by an expanse of reddish-green vegetation.
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Water Lilies depicts the surface of a pond in Monet’s gardens at Giverny, outside of Paris. Two perspectives are visible at once: the water’s surface and the surrounding world it reflects. The water fills the entire painting, so we cannot see the pond’s perimeter.
Water Lilies (French: Nymphéas [nɛ̃.fe.a]) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). The paintings depict his flower garden at his home in Giverny, and were the main focus of his artistic production during the last thirty years of his life.
11 wrz 2009 · “Monet’s Water Lilies” is on view Sunday through April 12 at the Museum of Modern Art, (212) 708-9400, moma.org.
Blue Water Lilies. Claude Monet 1916 - 1919. Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Paris, France. "Nymphaea" is the botanical name for a water lily. Monet grew white water lilies in the water garden he had...
Beginning in 1899, and continuing for the rest of his life, paintings of this pond were the dominant theme of Monet's art. This painting illustrates the fluid, nearly abstract style the artist developed through these water lily paintings.
paintings by Claude Monet (1840-1926) in the collection for the first time since the Museum's reopening in 2004. The four MoMA paintings are a mural-sized triptych (Water Lilies, 1914–26); a single panel painting of the water lilies in the Japanese-style pond that Monet cultivated on his
