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Claude Monet's Water Lilies Series, Discussed

Claude Monet's Water Lilies Series, Discussed

Learn more about Claude Monet's paintings of water lilies.
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Transcript

Did you know Claude Monet was so obsessed with water lilies that he created his own landscapes at his home in Giverny?
With pheasants and ducks, bamboo, and willows.
A garden designed to inspire him.
He painted them in a “series,” like his haystacks.
First exhibited in 1900.
He continued using them as a subject.
In 1912, Monet started to lose his eyesight.
In 1914, his friend, Georges (the prime minister of France) encouraged him to paint on a larger scale.
After the War, Monet gave his paintings to the people of France, as a “symbol of peace.”
L’Orangerie Museum was built to house them.
Two large oval shaped rooms immerse the viewer.
Monet died in 1926, before it opened.
In his lifetime, he painted over 250 water lily paintings in various scales of size.
I have seen them in person.
They are magnificent.
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