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Blue Water Lilies

克洛德·莫奈1916 - 1919

Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Paris, 法国

"Nymphaea" is the botanical name for a water lily. Monet grew white water lilies in the water garden he had installed in his property at Giverny in 1893. From the 1910s until he died in 1926, the garden and its pond in particular, became the artist's sole source of inspiration. He said: "I have come back to things that are impossible to do: water with weeds waving in the depths. Apart from painting and gardening, I am good for nothing. My greatest masterpiece is my garden". Eliminating the horizon and the sky, Monet focused on a small area of the pond, seen as a piece of nature, almost a close-up. No details stand out and the overall impression is one of a shapeless surface. The square format reinforces the neutrality of the composition. The lack of a frame of reference gives the fragment an infinite, limitless feeling. Never was the artist's brushstroke so free, so detached from the description of forms. A close-up view of the canvas gives a feeling of total abstraction, because the brushstrokes are stronger than the identification of the plants or their reflections. The viewer has to make a constant visual and mental effort to piece together the landscape suggested in the painting. The unfinished borders accentuate this insistence on painting as a surface covered with paint, which was not lost on artists after the Second World War, particularly American painters exploring "abstract landscapes" and "lyrical abstraction."

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  • 标题: Blue Water Lilies
  • 创作者寿命: 1840 - 1926
  • 创作者国籍: French
  • 创作者性别: Male
  • 创作日期: 1916 - 1919
  • 实际尺寸: w2000 x h2000 mm
  • Provenance: Bought in 1981
  • Original Title: Nymphéas bleus
  • Credit Line: © Musée d'Orsay, dist. RMN
  • Painter: 克洛德·莫奈
  • 类型: Oil on canvas
  • 权利: #ERROR!
  • 外部链接: https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections
Musée d’Orsay, Paris

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