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Water lily" is the most representative of the master Impressionist Claude Monet in his later years. He used stunning techniques in the paintings of
water lilies: the verticle light poured into the sparkling water, extenting distance to enhance the visual effects. In the Monet's paintings brush, the pure green, and dark red flowers could be a flame. Seemingly random soft strokes of color lines, seems to allow water to flow up, then caught the moment that unvisual light shadow on the pond. Visitors stand near the painting, just as standing in the near of the
true pond , weird experience.
Impressionism is the most important period of French painting history. At 19th-century , Western tradition painting were transfered into the modern paintings. Monet is not a painter represent the mainstream of the
art paintings in Paris. As a young
painter, his life was distress for his art rejected by the mainstream. But he doggedly persisted and after organizing several exhibitions of impressionist paintings. The impressionism position were gradually recognize by others. At Monet middle age, his painting got the market and then his economic situation substantially improved. So he built an artificial pond at the village of Giverny outside Paris, and got water to form a water garden. Monet also planted a variety of willows and flowers around the pond, and water lilies in the pond. In the afternoon, the setting sunshine poured in, the water lilies were floating on mirror-like water, shining out their beauty. All of those were the source of Monet's
art creation.
Monet water lilies paintings.
Flowers is a important element in the Chinese art. Flower artwork also win its place in the oil paintings. Whenever I appreciated the greatness of the Chinese oil paintings, I will be impressed by its clearness and beautifulness, especially the flower paintings. So amazing, and will sink myself totally in the words of flower. The flower becomes a vivid stuff, could talk, could laugh, could cry.
