Sentences with phrase «water lily canvases»

Rejecting all forms of representational art or figuration, they also avoided the gestural abstract expressionist idiom of Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, even though the latter's «action - painting» can be seen as a pioneering attempt to create an «all - over» field of colour, recalling Monet's huge water lily canvases.

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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.

Another critical view advanced by Clement Greenberg connects Pollock's allover canvases to the large - scale Water Lilies of Claude Monet done during the 1920s.

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.

Claude Monet, «Water Lilies,» c. 19140 - 17, oil on canvas.

Monet's mural - sized Water Lilies and the grand canvases of the Abstract Expressionists - designed to overwhelm in a conventionally scaled, mid-century exhibition space - looked like postage stamps at the bottom of the multistoried atrium.

Two of these luminous panels — «Reflections of Clouds on the Water - Lily Pond,» a mural - sized triptych, and «Water Lilies,» a single canvas — are among the most well - known and beloved works in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art.

Claude Monet, Nymphéas, (Water - Lilies) 1916 - 1919 Oil on canvas, 200 x 180 cm Fondation Beyeler, Riehen / Basel, Beyeler Collection Photo: Robert Bayer

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.

Monet, in particular, devoted his life to the portrayal of light on canvas, focusing on a number of favourite themes (haystacks, Rouen Cathedral, Water - Lilies).

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.

Name: Series of Paintings of Water Lilies (Nymphéas)(1897 - 1926) Artist: Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) Medium: Oil painting on canvas Genre: Landscape painting Movement: Impressionism Location: Musee de l'Orangerie, Musee Marmottan - Monet, Musee d'Orsay, in Paris; and major art museums worldwide.