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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 had...
13 lip 2024 · Water Lilies by Claude Monet, 1907. Source: Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Nonetheless, Monet’s Water Lilies would completely lose their magic without his masterful use of colors in transposing sunlight on canvas. Before the Impressionist era, painters mostly used blue, green, and yellow to paint landscapes.
4 sie 2024 · Monet loved to paint in his garden which prompted an extensive collection of water lily paintings. The subject has become iconic and synonymous with Monet. The way that Monet plays between the explicit and implicit objects adds to their beauty. Explicitly the viewer beholds water lilies and water.
Claude Monet’s mesmerizing “Water Lilies” series stands as a testament to his unparalleled mastery of light, color, and form. These iconic works, born from the tranquil waters of his garden in Giverny, France, continue to captivate audiences worldwide with their ethereal beauty and timeless appeal.
The huge pale picture offers an immersive experience, its surface alive and shimmering with trails of green, ochre, violet, yellow, sky blue and pink. In the years before he painted this canvas Monet experienced some tragic events that had led to a relatively fallow period in his artistic output.
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.
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.
