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Art / Claude Monet

PAINTING

The Japanese Footbridge and the Water Lily Pool -- by Claude Monet

Claude Monet's painting The Japanese Footbridge and the Water Lily (given above) is the scene of his residence in the village Giverny near Paris where the painter purchased a property of his own. He started to build a water garden which is now open to the public which is a Lily pond arched with a Japanese bridge and overshadowed with willows and tuft of bamboo. Starting in 1906, the paintings of the pond and the water lilies kept him busy for the remaining part of his life, which adore the Orangerie, Paris; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Museum of Modern Art in NY City. His style of painting is popularly known as the Impressionist style that brought the study of the transient effects of natural light to its most refined expression. (It Looks Like an Original Monet)

Monet was a champion of visual painting. According to Cezanne who pioneered cerebral painting mentioned of him as that "Monet is just an eye- but God, what an eye!" His positioning of forms, large and small, was such accurate that all the elements in the painting was flawlessly formed and placed, similar to what it is when we observe it in the natural world.

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This flair with painting has given rise to somebody to undermine Monet's contribution along with Impressionism, as simply visual and lack of form. However, anybody who gives precedence to color compared to form; Monet's contribution is immense in nature, just as immense in its independent manner as Cezanne. Even though it started with Impressionism's brief moment in time, Monet's contribution over the years came to be less concerned with external reality and more in the abstract qualities of paint on canvas. This development attained a summit with his water lilies series of big paintings, wherein color, light and paint were the subjects. (Artist Profile: Claude Monet)

While painting "The Japanese Footbridge" in Giverny where he constructed his famous garden, his work passed through a long transition, from the initial naturalism to Impressionism to study the fleeting light effects, to views of his valued garden and the Japanese Footbridge he had constructed specially. Monet started to paint his water lilies, initially as part of the Giverny garden ensemble of water, bridge and flowers. In the painting, the surface of the water has been used as the metaphor for the surface of the painting, with freely moving lines, areas, and dabs of color. The orchestrations of the color relationships are also the topic of the paintings. The mastery….....

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