Monet Water Lilies Bridge
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Monet water lilies bridge. This is for my elementary artists showing them how to draw a picture inspired by monet s water lilies and japanese bridge. Is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by french impressionist claude monet 1840 1926. For more details and other art lessons visit my blog at. Water lilies or nymphéas french.
Unlike the artist s garden at giverny which was a single painting monet would paint many series of the exact same scene in an effort to capture the different lighting conditions at various times of the day or season and also in varying. The water garden became the main obsession of monet s later career and the subject of some 250 paintings. 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. 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.
Another source for the idea of growing his water lilies in a wild fashion instead of the more traditional victorian style of growing them in rows was william robinson s the wild garden a popular british gardening book published in 1870 monet may have encountered on his stay in london that year during the franco prussian war or later when it found a following in france see willsdon 2004. ˈ m ɒ n eɪ us. M oʊ ˈ n eɪ french. 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 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 many of the works were painted while monet suffered from cataracts.