Sentences with phrase «famous water lilies»

Near the end of his life, Monet created a series of large scale paintings in the mode of his famous Water Lilies paintings that were particularly abstract.

For our honeymoon a couple of summers ago, we made a day trip out to Giverny from Paris, to visit Monet's home and the gardens filled with the famous water lilies.

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Nearby is the Ropotamo Reserve, famous for its water - lilied river, bird sanctuaries and bays, and further north is the Golden Sands National Park, where if you're lucky you can spot wild deer, boar and falcons.

The villa offers five pavilions set with alang - alang roofed, and a modernized Lumbung a rice barn, surrounding a central lotus and water lily pond, a swimming pool and Jacuzzi spread graciously in a tropical garden designs by the landscape architect Made Wijaya famous for its creation as the David Bowie house in Mystique West Indies.

In 1883, Monet settled at Giverny, where he created his famous water garden, and continued painting water lilies (see Decoration des Nympheas 1916 - 26, Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris) until he died, anticipating later 20th century styles such as Abstract Expressionism (1945 - 1960).

Works from this series are much rarer than the Impressionist master's famous water - lily pond canvases that have been popular among buyers globally in the past decade.

Famous late works, such as Claude Monet's late water lily paintings or Willem de Kooning's canvases of the 1980s are just as much central to this concept as are surprising «late works» such as Francis Picabia's radically reduced «Dot Paintings», created in 1949, or the «Sky and Cloud Paintings» by Georgia O'Keeffe, which were painted in the 1960s, when the artist was nearly eighty, and depict what was for her the new experience of flying.