Ebook {Epub PDF} Monets Water Lilies by Vivian Russell

Vivian Russell also describes the making of the water garden which, in contrast to the flower garden was to be meditative and mysterious, in tune with the Japanese aesthetic. She reveals how Monet chose his water lilies from plants bred specially by Joseph Bory Latour-Marliac at his nursery near Bordeaux. In his first water-lily series (–99), Monet painted the pond environment, with its plants, bridge, and trees neatly divided by a fixed horizon. Over time, the artist became less and less concerned with conventional pictorial space. Vivian Russell also describes the making of the water garden which, in contrast to the flower garden, was to be meditative and mysterious, in tune with the Japanese aesthetic. She reveals how Monet chose his water lilies from plants bred specially by Joseph Bory Latour-Marliac at his nursery near Bordeaux/5(3).

When these Water Lilies were revealed to the public, mounted in their own specially designed gallery in Paris' Musée de l'Orangerie (arranged by close personal friend Georges Clemenceau), Monet was dead — which may, in part, explain the critics' willingness to deride them as the work of an artist who had lost his powers."Monet, rejected by critics. Monets water lily paintings have more in common with the great baroque church ceiling paintings, where the heavenly throng cavorts freely, unfettered by gravity and other physical laws, than with the work of Rembrandt, Constable or anyone else in the Western landscape tradition (Russell, 53). Vivian Russell also describes the making of the water garden which, in contrast to the flower garden, was to be meditative and mysterious, in tune with the Japanese aesthetic. She reveals how Monet chose his water lilies from plants bred specially by Joseph Bory Latour-Marliac at his nursery near Bordeaux.

Buy a cheap copy of Monet's Water Lilies book by Vivian Russell. 'It took me a long time to understand my water lilies, Monet wrote of his pond at Giverny. 'I had planted them for the pure pleasure of it, and I grew them without. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Monet's Water Lilies by Vivian Russell (, Hardcover) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!. Monet's Water Lilies is a page book; probably somewhat above 50% of the contents of the book consist of photographs: examples of the Water Lily paintings, archival photos of Monet and his family at Giverny, and Vivian Russell's photographs of Nymphaea water-lilies and of Monet's Giverny property in the present day.