It took me a long time to understand my water lilies…I grew them without thinking of painting them…And then, all of a sudden, I had the revelation of the enchantment of my pond. I took up my palette. ~ Claude Monet, 1924 The Water Lilies or Nympheas is a series of approximately 250 paintings by Claude Monet. Nymphaea is the botanical name for a water lily. The paintings depict Monets flower garden at Giverny and were the main focus of Monets artistic production during the last thirty years of his life. He painted the image of the waterlilies again and again over a period of many years, at different times of the day and different times of the year. Monet was intensely preoccupied with capturing nature and light, and reportedly once said, “When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you… Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact colour and shape, until it gives your own naïve impression of the scene before you” The paintings evoke a sense of peace with the use of composition, stroke quality and color & open the viewers eyes to the incredible diversity of nature and to the depth and mystery of the life it sustains
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