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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 0xbadcafebee »

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.

The thing I loved about Giverny's pond is how even with a hundred tourists and the distant sound of the road, you feel snuggled up in a little green cocoon. Even the benches and bridges are green. There's no space on the banks for a person to peek out, so all you see is green and some dull brown. Then there's a pop of pink, or purple, or white, or red, or yellow flowers. And between it all, the clear blue sky and white clouds reflected off the water and up above. At least visually, civilization is gone. It's almost foreboding; it doesn't seem made for leisurely laying on the grass by the pond. Rather it's for looking out on from some hidden corner, as if to say, this place doesn't belong to you; this is mother nature's home, and you're a guest here.

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Post by Nic0 »

totetsu wrote: post #2

This is currently(?) on display in the Pola museum of art in Kanagawa. I saw it last month. https://www.polamuseum.or.jp/en/collection/006-0340/ If anyone has the chance to go to this museum I'd recommend it for the forest sculpture walk alone.

Does not seem the exact same painting. Some of the serie are very similar.

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Post by stblack »

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 yourself.

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Post by iamevn »

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.

Re: Monet: The Water Lily Pond

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Post by AlbertCory »

There are things that are great, but not very popular.

Other things are popular, but not all that great.

It's so satisfying when something is popular AND great.

(I could give examples, but that might just incite a flame war. Obviously I think Monet is in that last category.)

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