Claude Monet’s Water Lilies series is a collection of around 250 paintings he made during the last three decades of his life. He painted them in his garden in Giverny, France, where he had a pond full of water lilies, a Japanese bridge, and weeping willows. Monet was obsessed with painting the way light, water, and reflections changed at different times of day and in different seasons. He often painted the same view over and over, letting the colors and moods shift.
These paintings have no horizon or clear perspective—you feel like you’re floating in the scene. Monet wasn’t trying to paint the flowers exactly as they were, but to convey the feeling of being there. The brushstrokes are loose and dreamlike, and the colors blend into each other like ripples. Some of the panels are huge—one in the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris stretches across entire walls.
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