“Plants, water, and sky seem to merge in Claude Monet’s evocative painting of his lily pond at Giverny. The disorienting reflections, bold brushstrokes, and lack of horizon line or spatial depth make Water Lilies appear almost abstract. Painted about 1922, it belongs to a grand project that Monet had conceived as far back as 1897: (Monet wrote) “Imagine a circular room whose wall…would be entirely filled by a horizon of water spotted with [water lilies]… the calm and silence of the still water reflecting the flowering display; the tones are vague, deliciously nuanced, as delicate as a dream.”
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Monet’s Water Lilies At Sunnyside
Claude Monet at Museum Barberini
Claude Monet at Kunsthaus Zurich
Claude Monet at National Gallery of Art
Claude Monet at Art Institute of Chicago
Claude Monet at Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Claude Monet at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Claude Monet at Philidelphia Museum of Art
List of Paintings by Claude Monet at wikiwand
Claude Monet’s Bordighera Series in Museum Collections (links at bottom)
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Claude Monet on The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
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At Sunnyside - Where Truth and Beauty Meet 
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Thanks for the YouTube collection of Monet. It was gorgeous. I have done retreats at Mepkin Abbey in Monck’s Corner three times. They have a small pond which has goy and water lilies. Here is one of my haiku from sitting next to the pond:
opening slowly
patience of water lilies:
life lesson
Peace, LaMon
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How beautiful, LaMon! Thanks for adding to the conversation. 😊
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We happened to be visiting Milan, years ago, when they had a Monet retrospective, with a sizable room dedicated to the water lilies. I must have spent half a day in that room. They draw one in.
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You are so fortunate, Dolly! Thanks for sharing your wonderful memory. 😎
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