Monet, Water Lilies

Claude Monet, Les Nymphéas (The Water Lilies), suite of paintings on permanent exhibition at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris: Room 1: Morning, oil on two canvas panels, 200 x 425 cm, c. 1918-26 Clouds, oil on three canvas panels, 200 x 1275 cm, c. 1918-26 Green Highlights, oil on two canvas panels, 200 x 850 cm, c. 1918-26 Sunset, oil on canvas, 200 x 600 cm, c. 1918-26 Room 2: Reflection of Trees, oil on two canvas panels, 200 x 850 cm, c. 1918-26 The Morning Light, the willows, oil on three canvas panels, 200 x 1275 cm, c. 1918-26 The Morning Willows, oil on three canvas panels, 200 x 1275 cm, c. 1918-26 The Two Willows, oil on four canvas panels, 200 x 1700 cm, c. 1918-26 Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

[@h0lda]

The discussion of Monet's influence on modern art takes me back to being ten years old and learning about modern art for the first time in my aunt's studio. Thank you for reminding me of the magic and beauty of abstraction and modern art.

[@Barbara-jq2se]

I’m awed! Just looking at his work & yes, the colours & contrast is amazingly mesmerizingly beautiful!!!

[@asd36f]

The Water Lilies were donated to France by Monet at the end of the First Wolrd War. At the time of the Armistice he wrote to French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau: "I am on the eve of finishing two decorative panels that I would like to sign and date with Victory Day, and I write to ask you to present them to the State on my behalf. It is a little thing, but it is the only way that I can take part in the general joy."

[@Sasha0927]

I'm not used to seeing so many people in your videos.. 😅
The story behind this is beautiful - he nurtured and then painted.
I think I'd have to see this in person to truly appreciate it.

[@TotalGoatHead]

Just some time-line notes so I can find it again.
1:57 traditional landscape painting
4:13 Description of paint from Monet's Water Lillies

[@michaelkclark6981]

This is Beautiful... He is cheating with an entire room 😎
I Love It

[@halfabee]

If you observe the Water lilies in Cleveland museum of art and catch the light reflected on both ends of the painting. You will observe the paint is thicker and look like it could be reads at both ends of the panting. As if it was originally painted to be a side view of the pond not an overhead view of the pound. With the reads forming a frame if they were not over painted.

[@halfabee]

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[@9uidin9li9ht2]

I don't understand, are the canvases and frames curved somehow? What is happening?

[@ericraynard]

9uidin9li9ht Yes. There are two long oval rooms. They sit in an East-West axis. Monet painted four large canvases at Giverny, his estate near Paris. The canvases are mounted on the oval walls.

[@kalanetics]

It’s at Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris not Giverny

[@themanwhoknewtoomuch6667]

hello fellow monet nerds....