Water Lily Pond Painting

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.

Water lily pond painting.

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. 9 water lilies opened the path to abstract painting. Analysis of the water lily pond. Green harmony claude monet was the driving force behind the radical group of modern artists who became known as the impressionists.

In today s art journal thursday episode i m going to show you how to paint an acrylic painting inspired by the impressionist claude monet. The water garden became the main obsession of monet s later career and the subject of some 250 paintings. Water lily pond 1900 in monet paintings and drawings at the art institute of chicago ed. 90 as the water lily pond japanese bridge.

Museum of fine arts boston. Royal academy of arts. He enlarged the existing pond filling it with exotic new hybrid water lilies and built a humpback bridge at one end inspired by examples seen in japanese prints. 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.

The series paintings may 19 august 24 1990 no. Art institute of chicago. Is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by french impressionist claude monet 1840 1926. Water lily pond was among the 18 similar versions of the motif that he made in 1899 1900.

Monet in the 90s. Gloria groom and jill shaw art. Their common theme was the mingling of the lilies with reflections of other vegetation on the pool s surface. The water lily pond is work by artist claude monet from france is antique oil painting for sale.

Water lilies or nymphéas french. The series paintings september 7.