Museum exhibits and gallery shows have similarly helped convince collectors to reconsider Willem de Kooning's 1980s abstracts, Joan Miró's squiggly post-1960s paintings and Claude Monet's plum -
colored water lilies from the 1910s — all deemed unfashionable several years ago.
Not exact matches
He has no use for the glowing
color, all - over compositions, or mural size of Pollock or of
Water Lilies by Claude Monet.
You don't need to get too close to Monet's
water lilies or Vincent Van Gogh's sunflowers to see the bold strokes of
color.
Thousands of tiny white LEDs may resemble a starry night as seen in a planetarium, while tubes of
colored LEDs masked by a diffuser are like a Monet painting of
water lilies set in motion.
To call these paintings decorative would be short - sighted, for in manipulating the size, shape, and
colors of the traditional military fabric — a fabric designed not to be seen — he demonstrated an almost effortless ability to summon up an entire range of art historical references, from Chinese landscapes to Monet's
Water Lilies....
His references ranged from the
Water Lilies of Claude Monet, which inspired many of Francis's idea about atmosphere and space, to Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse, whose conceptions of pure
color were particularly resonant.
But it also radically feminizes a normally cold and masculine space (Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk first installed there alongside Monet's
Water Lilies set the tone nicely), not only with its subject matter but with the gaudy drama of several stories of fuchsia
colored drapes and a enormous circular couch that invites visitors to lounge, chat and even sleep.
The Untitled, 1960 features pastel
colors beneath the white that are vaguely reminiscent of the same
colors Monet uses in his
water lily paintings, leaving a peaceful mood.