The Art Institute of Chicago, Estados Unidos
OST - 94x89 - 1906
“One instant, one aspect of nature contains it all,” said
Claude Monet, referring to his late masterpieces, the water landscapes that he
produced at his home in Giverny between 1897 and his death in 1926. These works
replaced the varied contemporary subjects he had painted from the 1870s through
the 1890s with a single, timeless motif—water lilies. The focal point of these
paintings was the artist’s beloved flower garden, which featured a water garden
and a smaller pond spanned by a Japanese footbridge. 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. By the time he painted Water
Lilies, which comes from his third group of these works, he had
dispensed with the horizon line altogether. In this spatially ambiguous canvas,
the artist looked down, focusing solely on the surface of the pond, with its
cluster of vegetation floating amid the reflection of sky and trees. Monet thus
created the image of a horizontal surface on a vertical one.
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