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When we hear about Monet's water lilies, many of us are instinctively led to think of something beautiful and exciting. This shows us how much this recurring subject in the French painter has become part of our imagination. The water lilies, however, are not a single painting or a simple series of paintings but a theme that interested and occupied Monet for about 30 years.

It is estimated that about 250 paintings dedicated to aquatic plants have been made, paintings very different from each other in style, pictorial drafting, but also in size: paintings of modest size and huge canvases several meters long. Then there are rectangular, square and even round paintings. That of the water lilies is therefore a very vast universe that marks the last long phase of Monet's career.

The French painter not only devoted himself to water lilies in the last 30 years of his activity, but year after year, the representation of his garden in Giverny, where the famous pond with water lilies and the Japanese bridge was located, becomes more and more central up to become a challenge carried out with all the last energies of a very old man who had to struggle even with severe vision problems.

In the video he will therefore try to frame the making of these numerous canvases historically, presenting you with some of the most representative. It will therefore be a journey into the beauty and the ultimate sense of the painting of this great painter who, after being one of the protagonists of the impressionist season, has embarked on a titanic challenge with himself and towards new paths of painting never traveled before.

The Giverny garden, which can still be visited today, is made up of two main areas. The one in front of the large farmhouse and the one with the water lily pond which is located beyond a road where the railway originally passed.

Of course, what we can admire today is the result of subsequent interventions on the garden. Monet arrives in the farming village of Giverny in 1883 at the age of 43, and will live there for another 43 years until his death in 1926.

The garden is therefore the result of specific requests from Monet who subordinates his creation to the needs of a painter. He chooses exactly the flowers, plants and colors he wants according to his art.

Imagining the garden as a large palette of colors, this changes over the course of the year according to the calendar of blooms but also during the day according to the different light conditions. This if we think about it is extraordinary. Monet builds his garden as a gigantic work of art that stimulates him to create other works of art this time on canvas. Walking in Monet's garden it is as if we lived the experience of a work of art, as if we entered Monet's paintings and perhaps even better in the creative mind of the artist who shaped the space according to his own aesthetic vision.


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