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Title: Blue Water Lilies. Creator Lifespan: 1840 - 1926. Creator Nationality: French. Creator Gender: Male. Date Created: 1916 - 1919. Provenance: Bought in 1981. Physical Dimensions: w2000 x...
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 ...
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.
9 lut 2021 · In fact, when Monet painted Water Lilies, the price of French ultramarine oil paint was about half that of cobalt blue, which Monet also used in this work. By combining French ultramarine and cobalt blue with other colors in his palette, Monet achieved a wide range of blue-toned shades.
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.
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.
