Original Monet Water Lily Painting
For the job of re materializing the water lilies 1914 26 the factum arte team only had one black and white photograph of the painting which had come from the moma archives.
Original monet water lily painting. All up i located a staggering 250 plus paintings of water lilies. This is one of approximately 20 views or irises surrounding the banks of the lily pond that monet painted around 1914 17. Learn how to paint water lilies in the style of monet in this free step by step acrylic painting tutorial by angela anderson. This post is the third in a series where i discuss paintings of the same subjects by claude monet.
Irises were among monet s favourite flowers and he cultivated many different species planting them in both his flower garden and his water garden. Is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by french impressionist claude monet 1840 1926. Original 11x14 framed claude monet inspired water lily pond giverney france fran 54 00 h. I used brushes and acrylic paint pens to apply paint to the canvas and i used the end of brushes and silicon tools to remove paint and to make markings.
Before diving into this post make sure you grab my free landscape painting starter kit. However during the research phase the experts discovered that the remains of the original were still preserved at the new york university where they were given access to the canvas for analysis. This piece is layers upon layers. By the time of monet s death in 1926 the art world both in paris and in america was a very different place from the one he had largely struggled against during much of his life monet and his circle were the first to truly challenge the conventions of parisian art in the modern age and by doing so and progressing their works towards.
Claude pissarro statue osterman framed oil painting 33 x 30 camille monet. 9 water lilies opened the path to abstract painting. In this post i will feature some of the paintings of water lilies by claude monet which were created during his lifetime. Original water lily painting lilies garden flowers floral painting monet inspired vibrant beautiful acrylic painting by dana marie ready to hang.
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.