How to evaluate Monet's Water Lily

Speaking of the birth of Monet's series of water lilies, it is also a story in the world art history. 1890, Monet's economic situation was relatively affluent, which enabled him to buy his rented house and big garden in giverny from 1883. With great courage and determination, he resolutely rebuilt the garden and joined a big pond. Since then, this garden has given Monet endless inspiration and has become the core theme of his creative career in the last 30 years. Monet once explained to a studio visitor, "I spent a lot of time getting to know my water lily." When I first planted it, it was just for fun, and I didn't intend to use it for painting. Landscape images often take more than one day to be unforgettable. I found an unexpected surprise in an instant-how wonderful my pond is-and then I started painting. From that moment on, I have almost no other painting themes. "

Helena Newman said that Monet's "Water Lily" series is one of the most iconic painting series in the development of modern art. Monet stopped painting from a clear perspective and began to pay attention to elements such as color, texture and environmental effects, forming a more abstract creative style in the process.

Monet was embarrassed in Paris when he was young, and his paintings were rejected by the society at that time, but he stubbornly persisted and participated in many exhibitions. With the passage of time, his works are gradually accepted and appreciated by people. After middle age, he made some achievements in painting and his economic situation improved, so he bought a piece of land, found someone to build a pond, carefully designed his own water garden and planted a lot of weeping willows and water lilies. He likes water lilies very much, and often paints on them. Sometimes he puts several canvases on them and paints at the same time, which can keenly capture the subtle changes of water lilies in the light with time. The water lilies he painted have different shapes, harmonious colors and ethereal beauty. After more than ten years, Monet devoted all his body and mind to the water lily in this pond, which became the theme of his paintings in his later years. In Monet's early water lily works, you can also see the small bridge in Japan, which arches from the green trees and has a very vivid image. The later works of water lily are the last stage of life. The Japanese arch bridge has disappeared in his works. The scenery around the pond is only a narrow fragment in the upper part of the picture. The water lilies in the pool became more concise and finally disappeared completely. Sometimes the water in the picture is so deep that there is no sky. The whole picture only has water lilies. The color of Monet water lily,

Almost all the colors seen by the eyes in reality are used, among which blue is used to represent the dark blue petals of water lilies, and the whole picture is full of cool colors, giving people a feeling of cold and depression. Draw a light blue and dark blue water surface on the vertical plane. There are several romantic flowers floating on the water surface. The blue water lily is almost purple, which has a suffocating sadness and sadness. Water lilies express Monet's inner feelings. As a plant, it is no longer a general description object, but the most direct expression of Monet's inner feelings. In his water lily works, it is better to use water lily to express the color of nature than to use color. Monet was fascinated by painting and the countryside, especially flowers. Monet, like a hermit, has a strong sense of loneliness. This has something to do with his personality. On the other hand, he was a pioneer of impressionism. When he has to struggle forward alone, he will naturally feel lonely and lonely. So he likes rural life and paints with nature as the theme. He captures the effect of light and shadow with wild brushstrokes, and creates paintings with the change of light, forming a unique tone expression. In his later years, Monet painted a painting about water lilies, and called it "Water lilies, waterscape series", which became the greatest landscape painting of impressionism and Monet's highest artistic achievement. The artistic value of painting is mainly reflected in two aspects. On the one hand, his painting skills, only superb painting skills and extraordinary creativity can have such high artistic attainments. On the other hand, painting should have thought and spirit, express one's ambition through painting, and express higher and deeper things by artistic means. The reason why these works become famous paintings,

Because the content it wants to express is eternal. Although it was produced in that era, it is also appreciated and pursued by modern people.