Claude Monet Bridge Over Water Lilies
Along with starry night by vincent van gogh water lilies are the most iconic images of impressionism.
Claude monet bridge over water lilies. 1 water lilies is not a name of a single painting but a name of a series of works. During the last thirty years of his life the impressionist claude monet devoted himself to a series of famous landscape paintings of his water gardens at giverny. 92 7 x 73 7 cm famous paintings by claude monet impression sunrise the magpie woman with a parasol san giorgio maggiore at dusk women in the garden snow. The bridge over a pond of water lilies was created in 1899 and it s a part of the famous water lilies series which contains around 250 paintings.
14 november 1840 5 december 1926 was a french painter a founder of french impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement s philosophy of expressing one s perceptions before nature especially as applied to plein air landscape painting. Is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by french impressionist claude monet 1840 1926. Bridge over a pond of water lilies artist claude monet year 1899 medium oil on canvas location metropolitan museum of art new york dimensions 36 5 x 29 in. The paintings from this series including the bridge over a pond of water lilies depict monet s beloved flower garden in his home.
Monet returned in a concerted way to depict the bridge over his pond in eighteen canvases of 1899 1900 and exhibited. During his lifetime claude monet comes back to this subject matter several times and painted more than 250 water lilies paintings. ˈ m ɒ n eɪ us. Among these water lilies paintings 1897 1926 was a smaller series of eighteen views of the wooden japanese footbridge over his pond which he began in 1899.
He installed a japanese style footbridge over the pond late that year following the same axis as his main garden path and first painted the motif in three canvases of 1895 before planting water lilies see figs. Monet was a passionate horticulturist. Claude monet s garden at giverny is probably the most famous garden in france. Blue water lilies claude monet 1916 1919 from the collection of.
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