Impressionism · 1916
Water Lilies
Monet removed the horizon and let a pond fill the whole canvas. Water, reflection and paint become hard to separate.
- Made
- 1916
- Style
- Impressionism
- Collection
- One of Monet's late water-lily paintings
From museum to game table
The in-game crop
The card adds paint spaces, rewards and a frame. This crop shows the artwork area used during play, without the card rails.
The short history
What happened here?
Monet created a water garden at Giverny and painted it for more than two decades. The pond was not a wild scene. He shaped it carefully with imported lilies, a bridge and controlled planting.
His late canvases grew larger as his sight weakened and Europe went through war. Reflections break the normal sense of depth. A patch may read as water, cloud or bare paint depending on where you stand.
The series ended in the great decorative panels now at the Musée de l'Orangerie. These works gave later abstract painters a model for large, immersive fields of color.
Look closer
Three details worth finding
- 1Reflections with no visible horizon
- 2Thick flowers over thin pools of color
- 3Open passages where canvas nearly shows through
Sources
Read further
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