Water Lily Original Claude Monet Paintings
This post is the third in a series where i discuss paintings of the same subjects by claude monet.
Water lily original claude monet paintings. Klod mɔnɛ 14 november 1840 5 december 1926 who was a founder of french impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement s philosophy of expressing one s perceptions before. Is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by french impressionist claude monet 1840 1926. Water lilies or nymphéas french. These monumental paintings were intended to form an entire decorative scheme and he donated 22 of them to the french state after the firs.
All up i located a staggering 250 plus paintings of water lilies. 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. 5 when monet come back to his water lily paintings in 1914 following the death of his beloved wife alice in 1911. This is an incomplete list of works including nearly all the finished paintings but excluding preparatory black and white sketches by claude monet french pronunciation.
The water lily pond is a painting produced by claude monet in 1899. Before diving into this post make sure you grab my free landscape painting starter kit. This is one of the largest series of paintings which the french painter painted with 18 different canvases. 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 original work.
At the start of the 20th century the french painter and impressionist master claude monet fell into a deep depression due to his progressive loss of sight caused by cataracts and the death of his second wife alice the love of his life and source of strength throughout his difficulties. In 1916 monet had a new studio built at his home in giverny in order to work on huge canvases of his water lily pond each of them more than two metres high. From 1897 to 1926 monet painted many series of painting in his last 30 years among which include seine at giverny and water lily pond. He made some radical changes in his approach namely in the scale of the canvases.
The water lily pond by claude monet is a 100 hand painted oil painting reproduction on canvas painted by one of our professional artists. In a letter to his step daughters he wrote. In this post i will feature some of the paintings of water lilies by claude monet which were created during his lifetime. He also changed his palette ond used brilliant spots of colour to suggest the flowers.
They were monumental in scale most measuring around two metres six feet square. The painter in me is dead.