Water Lily Monet Bridge Painting
Hand painted painting reproduction with oil on canvas performer.
Water lily monet bridge painting. Is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by french impressionist claude monet 1840 1926. Water lily pond and japanese bridge 1899 artist. 9 water lilies opened the path to abstract painting. We utilize only the finest oil paints and high quality artist grade canvas to ensure the most vivid color.
Here the bridge spans the width of the canvas but is cut off at the edges so that it seems to float unanchored above the water its shape reflected in a dark arc at the bottom of the picture. The water garden became the main obsession of monet s later career and the subject of some 250 paintings. Our artists start with a blank canvas and paint each and every brushstroke by hand to re create all the beauty and details found in the. This is one of 18 canvases of this view in differing light conditions that monet started in the summer of 1899 the same year he started painting waterloo and charing cross bridges.
Such high praise emboldened monet to seek beyond the western motifs in his garden even painting the houses of parliament charing cross bridge and other monuments of. The bridge which monet designed himself shows the influence of japanese art on his work. The contemporary critic raymond bouyer for example wrote that monet s work expresses france and called him our great national painter and the most significant painter of the century quoted in tucker 1990 p. 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.
After learning a little bit about claude monet students will draw their bridge and water. Amazing acrylic pour flower painting. Bridge over the water lily pond by claude monet is a 100 hand painted oil painting reproduction on canvas painted by one of our professional artists. Admitting as early as 1901 to his obsession with painting the water garden monet would visit it at least three times a day to study the changing light recording the details in his notebooks.