Claude Monet Lily Pond Painting
Even after the artist s garden grew too large for him to maintain himself he still took pride in personally seeing to its architecture and planning.
Claude monet lily pond painting. The national gallery london. The water lily pond by claude monetthe national gallery london. He uses the water lily pond and bridge as the main focus of the artwork with an array of different shades of green in the background to allow the viewer to infer a large bush area behind the pond. The water lily pond an in painting tour from the national gallery london.
Oil painting on canvas genre. 5 when monet come back to his water lily paintings in 1914 following the death of his beloved wife alice in 1911. Read about this painting learn the key facts and zoom in to discover more. 1920 200 1276 cm 78 74 502 36 in oil on canvas museum of modern art new york city water lilies or nymphéas french.
Claude monet s artwork shows a typical impressionist approach through his subject matter being the water lily pond and bridge in his backyard. Green harmony 1899 artist. Despite his immense talent with a paint brush claude monet clearly had a similar love and talent for gardening. Contents description analysis explanation of other paintings by monet.
It wasn t actually a painting that monet deemed his greatest work of art but the beautiful gardens he created at his home in giverny. Claude monet the water lily pond. Green harmony 1899 musee d orsay paris. Claude monet reflections of clouds on the water lily pond c.
He also changed his palette ond used brilliant spots of colour to suggest the flowers. The water lily pond is a painting produced by claude monet in 1899. 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. And then all of a sudden i had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
A landscape does not get under your skin in one day. He made some radical changes in his approach namely in the scale of the canvases. Impressionist landscape painting movement. This is one of the largest series of paintings which the french painter painted with 18 different canvases.
The water lily pond. Since then i ve hardly had any other subject claude monet told marc elder in 1924. They were monumental in scale most measuring around two metres six feet square.