Painting Monet Water Lily Pond
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Painting monet water lily pond. This painting lesson is based on french impressionist claude monet s series of oil paintings of water lilies. Claude monet s artwork shows a typical impressionist approach through his subject matter being the water lily pond and bridge in his backyard. Analysis of the water lily pond. In his later years it became his sole subject.
Claude monet devoted the last thirty years of his life developing a series of famous landscape paintings some includes seine at giverny. The water lily pond an in painting tour from the national gallery london. The national gallery london. This is one of approximately 20 views or irises surrounding the banks of the lily pond that monet painted around 1914 17.
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. Step by step tutorial acrylic paining on canvas. Museum of fine arts houston. 9 water lilies opened the path to abstract painting.
The masterpieces of french painting from the metropolitan museum of art. Water lily pond was painted by claude monet in 1899. Manet painted the water lily series in 18 different canvases. Impressionist paintings main subject matter is still life and nature.
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. Influenced by eugene boudin 1824 98 and johan barthold jongkind 1819 1891 monet himself came to specialize in plein air painting in order to capture the momentary effects of light and colour. It is as though we are sta.
38 as water lily pond. The water lily pond is an oil painting produced in 1899 by french painter claude monet. 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. Monet s garden october 29 2004 march 13 2005 no.
Claude monet s works began the movement of impressionism that led to modernism.