Ninféias (Nymphéas) - Claude Monet
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Estados Unidos
OST - 92x81 - 1907
The many variations of Claude Monet's Water Lilies are probably
some of the most beloved works of the 20th century. Millions of people have
made the pilgrimage to France to visit Monet's house in Giverny, where the
gardens served as inspiration for hundreds of the artist's paintings. Monet
purchased the house in 1890 and greatly expanded the water-lily pond at the
bottom of the garden. The MFAH version of Water Lilies, or Nymphéas in French,
was part of a first concentrated campaign by Monet to capture the delicate
blooms at different times of the day, under different atmospheric conditions.
When, after much hesitation, he exhibited a suite of 48 water-lily paintings in
1909 at the Paris gallery of his art dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel, the series
became an enormous financial, popular, and critical success. In conjunction
with that exhibition, Monet was asked to define the essence of his art.
"The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my
inspiration," he said.
"Perhaps my originality boils down to my
capacity as a hypersensitive receptor, and to the expediency of a shorthand by
means of which I project onto a canvas, as if onto a screen, impressions
registered on my retina."
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