Claude Monet Lily Paintings

As a child his father wanted him to go into the grocery business but his heart was in the profession of artistry and at age 11 he entered le havre secondary school of the arts.

Claude monet lily 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. The painter in me is dead. 5 when monet come back to his water lily paintings in 1914 following the death of his beloved wife alice in 1911. ˈ m ɒ n eɪ us.

Claude monet paintings by 1920 1926. Oscar claude monet 1840 1926 oscar claude monet 1840 1926 is a famous french painter and one of the founders of the impressionism movement along with his friends renoir sisley and bazille. He also changed his palette ond used brilliant spots of colour to suggest the flowers. These monumental paintings were intended to form an entire decorative scheme and he donated 22 of them to the french state after the firs.

Claude monet reflections of clouds on the water lily pond c. They were monumental in scale most measuring around two metres six feet square. The water lily pond is a painting produced by claude monet in 1899. Monet rejected the traditional approach to landscape painting and instead of copying old masters he had been learning from his friends and the nature itself.

1920 200 1276 cm 78 74 502 36 in oil on canvas museum of modern art new york city water lilies or nymphéas french. Nɛ fe a is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by french impressionist claude monet 1840 1926. M oʊ ˈ n eɪ french. This series was inspired by the water garden that he created at his giverny estate in normandy.

He made some radical changes in his approach namely in the scale of the canvases. At the start of the 20th century the french painter and impressionist master claude monet fell into a deep depression due to his progressive loss of sight caused by cataracts and the death of his second wife alice the love of his life and source of strength throughout his difficulties. The nymphéas water lilies cycle occupied claude monet for three decades from the late 1890s until his death in 1926 at the age of 86. This is one of the largest series of paintings which the french painter painted with 18 different canvases.

From 1897 to 1926 monet painted many series of painting in his last 30 years among which include seine at giverny and water lily pond. In a letter to his step daughters he wrote.