Knowra Water Lilies Water Lilies Water Lilies is a series of paintings by Claude Monet depicting the water garden at his home in Giverny, France. Its changing views of water, plants, reflections, and light became a central subject of his late work.
Water Lilies (1906) : A 1906 oil painting by Claude Monet showing water lilies, foliage, and reflections on the pond at Giverny. It exemplifies the pond compositions Monet developed within the larger series.
Giverny water garden : The landscaped pond and plantings at Monet's home in Giverny, France. Its lily pond, bridge, and vegetation supplied the series' recurring forms.
Claude Monet : A French painter and leading figure of Impressionism, born in 1840 and died in 1926. He created the Water Lilies series over the final decades of his life.
Abstract expressionism : A postwar American art movement characterized by gestural abstraction and large-scale painting. Some painters and critics saw Monet's late canvases as precedents for expansive abstraction.
Water Lilies (Agapanthus) : A group of large Monet paintings featuring agapanthus among water lilies and reflected foliage. These canvases show how the series expanded beyond its familiar oval pond views.
Claude Monet's garden at Giverny : The gardens Monet developed around his home in Giverny, including flower beds and a water garden. Monet cultivated the setting whose plants and views became his subject.
Giverny : A village in Normandy, France, where Monet lived and worked from 1883 until his death. Monet's home and garden there provided the series' setting.
Mark Rothko : An American painter known for large canvases with luminous fields of color. Rothko's encounters with Monet's large paintings informed his thinking about scale and immersive color.
Water Lilies (1914–26) : Monet's monumental late canvases of the water garden, painted between 1914 and 1926. They carry the series toward broad, immersive compositions without a visible horizon.
Japanese bridge at Giverny : A footbridge in Monet's Giverny water garden, modeled on Japanese garden bridges. The bridge appears in related Giverny paintings and helps locate the pond compositions.
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