Claude Monet | Bouquet of Sunflowers - The Metropolitan …
A still life painting of sunflowers in a Japanese vase by Monet, created in 1881. Learn about the context, style, and influence of this Impressionist work, and compare it with Van Gogh's …
Water Lilies (Monet series) - Wikipedia
Water Lilies is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). 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.
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Later in Life, Claude Monet Obsessed Over Water Lilies. His …
The precious flowers, drifting, their movement almost imperceptible, over the liquid blue-green surfaces of the artist’s Water Lilies paintings, evoke a dreamy contentment, as if the world is...
Claude Monet | Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies
In 1899, he began a series of eighteen views of the wooden footbridge over the pond, completing twelve paintings, including the present one, that summer. The vertical format of the picture, unusual in this series, gives prominence to the …
Water Lilies - The Art Institute of Chicago
In his first water-lily series (1897–99), Monet painted the pond environment, with its plants, bridge, and trees neatly divided by a fixed horizon. Over time, the artist became less and less concerned with conventional pictorial space.
Claude Monet | Chrysanthemums - The Metropolitan …
An avid gardener, Monet produced some twenty floral still lifes between 1878 and 1883, garnering both critical and commercial success. This painting was exhibited together with the Museum’s Bouquet of Sunflowers (29.100.107) at …
Bouquet of Sunflowers, 1881 by Claude Monet
Unlike Van Gogh, Monet painted the sunflowers with no sign of decay. Monet chose seven types of flowers for his still life works - sunflowers were among his most popular and this work …
Close Look: Claude Monet’s - Saint Louis Art Museum
The lush flowers and trees of Le Pressoir fill many of Monet’s paintings. Monet’s later renovations included the creation of a pond surrounded by weeping willows. To accomplish this, Monet negotiated with the local government and received …
List of paintings by Claude Monet - Wikipedia
Monet's "Series paintings" are well known and notable, and include Haystacks, Water Lilies, Rouen Cathedrals, Houses of Parliament, Charing Cross Bridge, and Poplar Trees. His prodigious output of nearly 2000 paintings was …