This concept of embracing spatiality, new to the history of painting and only implicit in the first water-lily paintings, was expanded by 1925 into a cycle of huge murals to be installed in Paris in two 80-foot oval rooms in the Orangerie of the Tuileries. The first canvases of lilies, water, and the Japanese bridge were only about one yard square, but their unprecedented open composition, with the large blossoms and pads suspended as if in space, and the azure water in which clouds were reflected, implied an encompassing environment beyond the frame. By 1900 this unique product of Monet's imagination (for his Impressionism had become more subjective) was in itself a major work of environmental art-an exotic lotus land within which he was to meditate and paint for more than 20 years. Soon weeping willows, iris, and bamboo grew around a free-form pool, clusters of lily pads and blossoms floated on the quiet water, and a Japanese bridge closed the composition at one end. By diverting this stream, he began to construct a water-lily garden. In 1890 Monet had bought a strip of marshland across the road from his house and flower garden, through which flowed a tributary of the Epte. Sir John Everett Millais paintings (246).William McGregor Paxton Paintings (136).Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Paintings (245).
Frederick Arthur Bridgman Paintings (208).John Frederick Herring Sr Paintings (852).John William Waterhouse Paintings (118).Frederick Carl Frieseke Paintings (185).Charles Courtney Curran Paintings (150).Cassius Marcellus Coolidge Paintings (30).Maurice Brazil Prendergast Paintings (349).
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