Water Lily Painting Monet
This post is the third in a series where i discuss paintings of the same subjects by claude monet.
Water lily painting monet. 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. In this post i will feature some of the paintings of water lilies by claude monet which were created during his lifetime. The water lily pond an in painting tour from the national gallery london. Green harmony claude monet was the driving force behind the radical group of modern artists who became known as the impressionists.
This is one of approximately 20 views or irises surrounding the banks of the lily pond that monet painted around 1914 17. 9 water lilies opened the path to abstract painting. It wasn t actually a painting that monet deemed his greatest work of art but the beautiful gardens he created at his home in giverny. Irises were among monet s favourite flowers and he cultivated many different species planting them in both his flower garden and his water garden.
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. Water lilies or nymphéas french. In his later years it became his sole subject. The national gallery london.
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. This is one of the largest series of paintings which the french painter painted with 18 different canvases. Is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by french impressionist claude monet 1840 1926. All up i located a staggering 250 plus paintings of water lilies.
The water lily pond is a painting produced by claude monet in 1899. 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. 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.