Water Lilies and the garden of Giverny Walk in the Garden of the Artist, 1901/1902, Belvedere in Vienna Water Lilies, 1906, Art Institute of Chicago Water Lilies, about 1915, Neue Pinakothek Munich The Japanese Bridge, about 1899, National Gallery in London His last 30 years of life and work Monet was mainly concerned with the layout and design of his garden in Giverny, which is divided into the clos normand these decorative garden and the so-called jardin deau or water garden with its water lily pond. Both often served as his motive for his paintings. He bought exotic plants that were known in France for part only a few years, and composed the color combination of the flowers. The image path in the garden of the artist, which originated in 1901 and 1902, is part of a series of approximately square images of the same subject. It shows one leading to the house way through the garden. The house in the background is located in the center of the visual axis, however, is to detect weak due to the abundance of plants. The path is entwined with climbing roses, which earned him the name rose path, and limited discounts. Particularly dominant emerges the purple flower color from these beds, while the upper half of the image is dominated by the color red. On the way, the cast of the twining roses shading appears dark very prominent. The image is symmetrical, but does not strictly due to the richness of color. Monet employed a gardener alone to take care of water lilies in the water garden. The pond is alive beside the lily of seagrass and algae, while on the banks of reeds grow iris and weeping willows. Claude Monet was the great landscape compositions and focused on the partial view. He focused on excerpts from the water surface. The water landscapes depicted are not longer horizon, the sky no longer appears at the top of the screen. The sky in the image, as well as trees appear only as mirroring. Therefore, the pictures can hardly be considered to be in landscape images. So Monet used the term reflex landscapes. He painted landscapes not only outdoors but also in the studio, but always returned to the original motif. The pictures of the lily pond show the most promoted dissolution of the subject. The wide overlapping leaves of water lilies islands form horizontal structures, while the reflections create vertical structures in the water. That these geometric structures seem not boring, is mainly due to the fanning effect of the flowers. The color helps to loosen up. It is split into many individual nuances, so that present within an image changing hues. Here, Claude Monet was light perception so again, that in the image flickering mosaic of colors is visible. The paint was applied by Monet in polka dots and dashes, the first color layer is very thin and is covered by the later, thicker layers. Over time this changed Monet paint. During the first pictures were painted with short points and spots, the marks on the later Water Lilies thicker and form vortex-like structures. In addition, the colors of the image of the actual object color away. Furthermore, the sizes were getting bigger. So the water lily decorations have grown strongly, for example, with sizes ranging from 2 × 6 meters in 1926, compared with a picture from 1904 with 90 × 92 centimeters.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 15:32:44 +0000
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015