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16 wrz 2014 · Monet conceived plans for an ambitious cycle of monumental decorative pictures capturing the effect of his water garden. These changeable, richly atmospheric images of 'silent dead waters reflecting spreading flowers' are imbued with a mysterious, melancholic intensity.
The Water Lilies by Claude Monet. Offered to the French State by the painter Claude Monet on the day that followed the Armistice of November 11, 1918 as a symbol for peace, the Water Lilies are installed according to plan at the Orangerie Museum in 1927, a few months after his death.
13 sty 2018 · For 30 years, the aging artist would focus on the floating flora, culminating in Les Nymphéas (“The Water Lilies”), a series of around 250 large-scale oil paintings. Today, these pieces are among his most well-known work, and are showcased in museums, galleries, and collections around the world.
Water Lilies is the central panel of a triptych, or three-panel painting, that Monet entitled Agapanthus. Monet worked on this triptych in his studio located in Giverny, France. The total width of the three panels is 12.77 meters.
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.
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.
There he created painting after painting of the changing images of the pond, its water lilies and the reflecting light at all hours of morning, day and evening. In different works of the...
