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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...
Monet’s Water Lilies, as free of polemic as the Americans’ work was a clarion call, would come to take on a prominent role. For countless commentators, and completely in spite of themselves, these 15 “Impressionism,” and that declares as its hallmark the spontaneity of glance and of touch (fig. 9). In contrast, the Water Lilies ...
14 sty 2019 · Monumental in scale, this rendering of his water lily pond focuses on the momentary effects of sunlight as it both penetrates and reflects off its shimmering surface. By zeroing in on the water and omitting its horizon and surrounding banks, Monet infers a limitless expanse—a perception amplified by the painting’s vast horizontal format ...
9 lut 2021 · In Water Lilies, touches of cobalt violet are evident throughout the water, where he painted the shadowed areas of the pond’s surface with more purplish blue tones. But Monet did not shy away from applying strokes of this vibrant purple hue, seemingly straight out of the tube, to add striking accents to the water-lily flowers.
This vision materialized in the form of some forty large-scale panels, Water Lilies among them, that Monet produced and continuously reworked from 1914 until his death in 1926. At this triptych’s center, lilies bloom in a luminous pool of green and blue that is frothed with lavender-tinged reflections of clouds.
Pink and yellow light from the setting sun shimmers on the still surface of the water in which the water lilies float. Monet conveys the flatness of the water surface while at the same time indicating its depth.
Claude Monet. Irises were among Monet’s favourite flowers, and he cultivated many different species, planting them in both his flower garden and his water garden. This is one of approximately 20 views or irises surrounding the banks of the lily pond that Monet painted around 1914–17.
