Claude Monet He had two passions in life: art and gardening. It was he who planted his own garden and every morning he got up early to water the flowers and sow new species, even built an aquatic garden with a Japanese style bridge.
Monet was the key figure of the impressionist movement, in fact, it was his painting in charge of named his name. The artist always tried to capture moments, light, color variations and shapes; Although in his last works, the form was already dissolved in color spots and many art historians affirm that this was because of the cataracts suffered by the painter, they consider that he saw more and more yellowish. And the proof was that, after being operated he returned to his style of the beginning for a while.
His garden, in addition to being his safe place, became his muse, the main reason for his paintings, especially during his last months of life.
In addition, it was those flowers that marked impressionism; Monet's passion for gardening led him to define his artistic style, creating a live paint with its different species, with different sizes and tones to create perspective effects and color games.
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Claude Monet and its lilies
Before his famous aquatic gardens, Monet installed gardens around his house and during his life he painted more than 250 oil pieces of his lilies and Japanese bridge, executed with different lights and different moments of the day.
One of the gardeners was hired only to keep the lilies the best adapted to Claude Monet's paintings, so little by little they became the artist's obsession.
One of Claude Monet's most famous paintings is 'water lilies' and is the search for a new way of transferring the perspective. The shore, the sky, the horizon, the trees, everything is like a reflection in the water.