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Monet: The Water Lily Pond

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Re: Monet: The Water Lily Pond

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Post by robbedpeter »

iamevn wrote: post #9
stblack wrote: post #8

The Monet room on the fifth floor of MOMA in New York, with its two enormous Water Lilies’ works on opposing walls, is a deeply beautiful space. You should go there. Here’s what’s remarkable about Monet. Zoom in. Look closely. Regardless of how close or how far you gaze, you get a different painting, different scenes and subjects, and possible interpretations. It’s wild. Follow OP’s link here, zoom in, and see for yo…

> Follow OP’s link here, zoom in, and see for yourself. I can't seem to zoom in because the page hijacks my scroll and has disabled zoom.

Yeah. It might as well be in flash.

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Post by danrochman »

wlll wrote: post #3

I went to Monet’s garden as a kid and saw amongst other things the bridge. It was pretty special, even as a semi-reluctant child.

I’m quite happy to hear that, as my wife and I will be visiting Monet’s garden later this month, along with our semi-reluctant son. (He’s 10. )

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Post by hef19898 »

stblack wrote: post #8

The Monet room on the fifth floor of MOMA in New York, with its two enormous Water Lilies’ works on opposing walls, is a deeply beautiful space. You should go there. Here’s what’s remarkable about Monet. Zoom in. Look closely. Regardless of how close or how far you gaze, you get a different painting, different scenes and subjects, and possible interpretations. It’s wild. Follow OP’s link here, zoom in, and see for yo…

If you have the oppotunity you have to visit Monet's garden north of Paris.

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Post by polotics »

stblack wrote: post #8

The Monet room on the fifth floor of MOMA in New York, with its two enormous Water Lilies’ works on opposing walls, is a deeply beautiful space. You should go there. Here’s what’s remarkable about Monet. Zoom in. Look closely. Regardless of how close or how far you gaze, you get a different painting, different scenes and subjects, and possible interpretations. It’s wild. Follow OP’s link here, zoom in, and see for yo…

Totally worth it to go up to the top of MOMA and gaze a while. Pro tip: you know you stayed long enough once the security guards start eyeing you suspiciously! ;-)

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Post by coldcode »

As an artist who does digital abstract art, I've always loved Monet's (and Van Gogh's in a different style) ability to create a mood with from close up what appear to be random brush strokes and dabs. It's a magical ability I could never even vaguely approach. The ability to paint outdoors and capture fleeting lighting effects a camera would have trouble with (since a photo is only an instant) is also amazing. If I had $10M to spend and had an option for a Monet or Van Gogh, or a Bored Ape, how is that even a decision? 100 years from now people will still love the former, and the latter will be remembered alongside Pet Rocks if at all.

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Post by notreallyserio »

iamevn wrote: post #9
stblack wrote: post #8

The Monet room on the fifth floor of MOMA in New York, with its two enormous Water Lilies’ works on opposing walls, is a deeply beautiful space. You should go there. Here’s what’s remarkable about Monet. Zoom in. Look closely. Regardless of how close or how far you gaze, you get a different painting, different scenes and subjects, and possible interpretations. It’s wild. Follow OP’s link here, zoom in, and see for yo…

> Follow OP’s link here, zoom in, and see for yourself. I can't seem to zoom in because the page hijacks my scroll and has disabled zoom.

You might be able to work around this deliberate bug created by Google engineers by enabling zoom in your browser's accessibility settings. At least that's how I did it on Chrome back in the day.

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Post by wlll »

danrochman wrote: post #12
wlll wrote: post #3

I went to Monet’s garden as a kid and saw amongst other things the bridge. It was pretty special, even as a semi-reluctant child.

I’m quite happy to hear that, as my wife and I will be visiting Monet’s garden later this month, along with our semi-reluctant son. (He’s 10. )

My mum was an art teacher which probably helped. I think I'd seen some of Monet's art in things she'd shown me, or the Louvre and Musee d'Orsay (both if which I seem to recall enjoying for about 10 minutes max).

Seeing in real life the place that one of the paintings was made was interesting to me as I liked Monet in general and it was interesting to me to be in the place that this person had also been in many years ago.

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