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.
Monet, in particular, held great appeal for these artists who in 1953 had the chance to view
his late water lily paintings at the newly reopened Musée de l'Orangerie.
Not exact matches
One of Monet's early paintings first gave rise to the term «Impressionism,» and his
later paintings of
water lilies remain among his most popular and enduring works.
If you imagined Claude Monet at work on his
late masterpieces, the
Water Lilies, you might picture him seated in his garden in Giverny, France, placidly dabbing blues and purples onto canvas, capturing watery impressions with ease.
In
late fall, remove non-hardy aquatic plants like
Water Hyacinths or tropical
lilies and store them in warm, frost - free conditions indoors until next year.
In the light of abstraction or the all - over haze of
late Claude Monet and his
Water Lilies, his paintings display a steady progression to saturated canvases left unfinished at his death in 1851 — some after nearly a decade of effort.
A show of his
late work traces his immersion in a private world, where he tended his gardens and compulsively rearranged the subject of his
Water Lilies.
Monet's
late work ran at Gagosian through June 26, 2010, and his «
Water Lilies» at The Museum of Modern Art through April 12.
Water Lilies in nail polish goes on display at the Dallas Museum of Art
Late Night on Friday, January 16, 2015, from 6 p.m. to midnight.
Five Monet landscapes spanning 30 years are featured, from views of the French countryside to one of his
late representations of
water lilies, Le Bassin aux Nymphéas of 1919.
This collection is particularly strong in the works of Monet: five great Monet landscapes spanning thirty years are featured, from views of the French countryside to one of his
late immersive representations of
water lilies, Le Bassin aux Nymphéas of 1919.
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).
In 1899 he began painting the
water lilies, first in vertical views with a Japanese bridge as a central feature, and
later in the series of large - scale paintings that was to occupy him continuously for the next 20 years of his life.
The second, which lasted from then until 1970, comprised his signature style of Abstract Expressionism, sometimes known as Abstract Impressionism, for its similarity to Claude Monet's
late Impressionism, that is his series of
water lilies.
It was his painting Impression, Sunrise (1872) which in 1874 gave its name to the movement, and his
later works - such as the «Series» paintings of railway stations - see Gare Sainte - Lazare (1877)- haystacks and
water lilies, where he painted the same subject dozens, if not hundreds of times - reflect his lifelong fascination with the portrayal of light.
Other highlights include five Monet landscapes spanning 30 years, from views of the French countryside to his
late immersive representations of
water lilies, evocative works by Paul Cézanne and Gustav Klimt, and modern and contemporary perspectives by 20th ‐ century artists as diverse as Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, David Hockney, Gerhard Richter, and Ed Ruscha.
«Examples of Monet's paintings from the last decade of his life, for instance — especially his series of
water lilies (1917 - 1919)-- exhibit a spareness and openness comparable to de Kooning's
late paintings.
Later, during the last decades of his life, he would complete the finest sequence of Impressionist landscape painting - his much loved series of
Water Lilies (Nymphéas), in his pond at Giverny.