The 50 Paintings Project 

Painting # 32

'Water Lilies' by Claude Monet

This huge installation of 6 ft by 41 ft is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art NewYork. Not just lilies but even the reflection of clouds can also be seen in the water.

Water Lilies by Claude Monet , the father of Impressionism, is not one painting but a series of around 250 paintings of water lilies that he made. 

And all these are scenes from his backyard garden.

 He even constructed this Japanese bridge there and it has been the subject of 17 of  his paintings.

How did Monet end up painting so many  Water Lilies paintings?

Once when he was travelling through the village of GIVERNY in North France he was mesmerized by its beauty and as soon as he could afford it , he bought a house there.
Then he spent next 45 years landscaping and modifying his place and growing water lilies imported from Egypt and South America which became the subject of 250 of his paintings.





What was so beautiful about a small village? Look at these pictures 

 and....

  look at those flowers...

 and..oh..what a quaint street..wonder where it leads to...

 

So he bought a house....

 ...and painted in this studio ...

 and did gardening ....

 ....and thought and planned his paintings in this garden....

 and finally died a peaceful man surrounded by family and friends in 1926 in this bed in his bedroom.