Monet Water Lilies Under Bridge
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.
Monet water lilies under bridge. Artist angela anderson will guide you during this live free art lesson. Monet was a passionate horticulturist. Monet water lily pond and japanese bridge. 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.
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. Learn to paint a monet inspired masterpiece bridge over a pond of waterlilies with easy to follow instructions. 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.
How to draw monet s water lilies for kids duration. The paintings from this series including the bridge over a pond of water lilies depict monet s beloved flower garden in his home. Monet under the poplars. 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.
The water lilies and japanese bridge is actually one of a series of paintings of the sixteen canvases that were planned only 12 were brought to completion. 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 water garden became the main obsession of monet s later career and the subject of some 250 paintings. Is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by french impressionist claude monet 1840 1926.
After learning a little bit about claude monet students will draw their bridge and water lilies with oil pastels.