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The late Water Lilies richly demonstrate the often astonishing gap between the personal chronology of an individual artist and that of a history of art movements.
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 image features softly flowing passages of cloud reflections amid a tranquil surface punctuated by pink lilies. The delicate palette of this painting differentiates it from others and suggests a silvery light suffusing the pond's surface.
The monumental scale of these pictures combined with Monet’s bold brushwork and elimination of spatial context have led some critics and scholars to view them as precursors of Abstract...
There are many masterful works produced by Monet such as Impression Sunrise, Woman with a Parasol, Haystacks, etc. but nothing could overcome the brilliance and expansive work titled “Water lilies” or “Nympheas”. Monet water lilies contain a series of 250 paintings depicting a flower garden in his house at Giverny. He
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.
Monet aimed to divert the River Epte, thus creating a water garden for his land. This area he adorned with water lilies imported from South America and Egypt. His motivation for this project, aside from his fondness for horticulture, was ‘for the pleasure of the eye and also for motifs to paint’.
