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Lilypond expression1/17/2024 ![]() When he started painting the ponds it was only for his own pleasure, but as the war started Clemenceau encouraged him to create the big panels he dreamed of. This time of his career was marked by a lot of political unrest as tensions rose leading up to the First World War. The obsession with the water lilies stayed with Monet for three decades up to his death. However, with the encouragement of the politician Georges Clemenceau to realize his life-long dreams, Monet turned towards his love for creating and painting the lily ponds and started painting the magnificent Grandes Décorations.Ĭontextual Analysis: A Brief Socio-Historical Overview The painter went through a personal and creative crisis at this stage of his career. Water Lilies (1919) by Claude Monet Claude Monet, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons Among these disruptions were the death of his second wife Alice in 1911, the start of the First World war, he was faced with increasingly deteriorating eyesight, and his son, Jean, also passed away in 1914. He famously said that he created this Asian-inspired garden out of pleasure and then realized how much he desired to paint them.īetween the first painting of the water lilies and when Monet returned to this subject in 1914, his life and practice were disrupted by multiple travels and personal tragedies. He did not plant this water lily pond with the idea in mind to paint them. In the end, Monet’s ponds were a total size of 1,000 square meters. He extended the pond further in 1901 and diverted water from the Ru. The pond was surrounded by willow and ginkgo trees. On this extra piece of land, Monet created a water-lily pond with a wooden bridge in Japanese style. In 1893, he bought an adjacent plot that linked his property with the small Ru River. He immediately started redesigning and extending his garden. Monet started producing the first water lily studies after he bought an estate in Giverny in 1890. Water Lilies by Claude Monet in Context Date His feathery brush marks and vibrant colors made him one of the most recognizable Impressionist painters of the 19th century. Monet devoted a large part of his adult life to gardening and painting his garden. He became fascinated with the changing effects of light and how color might capture this quality in a natural landscape. Portrait of Claude Monet by the photographer Nadar in 1899 Nadar, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Eugène Boudin (1824 – 1898) introduced him to Plein Air landscape painting and mentored him after Monet has briefly part of the military. Later in his life, around 1858, Monet shifted his focus to painting landscapes. Monet created caricatures from a young age and left school early to sell these drawings in his city. He had another art mentor at his school in Le Havre, François Ochard (1800 – 1870). His love for drawing was clear from a young age and luckily his painter aunt Marie-Jeanne Lecadre took him under her encouraging wing. Despite the career plan his father had for him, Monet decided to become an artist. ![]() 6.3 Where Did Monet Paint Water Lilies?īorn in Paris on 14 November 1840, Oscar-Claude Monet was meant to become a shopkeeper.6.1 How Many Water Lilies Did Monet Paint?.5 New Technology: The Relevance of the Famous Water Lilly Paintings Today.4 Reception: Why Are Monet’s Famous Water Lily Paintings So Influential?.3.7 Process of Creating the Water Lilies Series.3.4.3 Colored Shadows in the Famous Water Lilies Paintings. ![]()
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