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In his first water-lily series (1897–99), Monet painted the pond environment, with its plants, bridge, and trees neatly divided by a fixed horizon. Over time, the artist became less and less concerned with conventional pictorial space.
- Claude Monet
He painted his beloved water lilies in Giverny, where he...
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Claude Monet, 1890/91. The monumental stacks that Claude...
- Claude Monet
In 1899, he began a series of eighteen views of the wooden footbridge over the pond, completing twelve paintings, including the present one, that summer. The vertical format of the picture, unusual in this series, gives prominence to the water lilies and their reflections on the pond. Listen.
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.
Water Lilies. Claude Monet French. 1916–19. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 819. As part of his extensive gardening plans at Giverny, Monet had a pond dug and planted with lilies in 1893. From 1899 on, he repeatedly turned to the subject, attempting to capture every observation, impression, and reflection of the flowers and water.
The precious flowers, drifting, their movement almost imperceptible, over the liquid blue-green surfaces of the artist’s Water Lilies paintings, evoke a dreamy contentment, as if the world is in...
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.
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.
