Art / Claude Monet

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The Japanese Footbridge and the Water Lily Pool -- by Claude Monet

Claude Monet's painting The Japanese Footbridge and the Water Lily (given above) is the scene of his residence in the village Giverny near Paris where the painter purchased a property of his own. He started to build a water garden which is now open to the public which is a Lily pond arched with a Japanese bridge and overshadowed with willows and tuft of bamboo. Starting in 1906, the paintings of the pond and the water lilies kept him busy for the remaining part of his life, which adore the Orangerie, Paris; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Museum of Modern Art in NY City. His style of painting is popularly known as the Impressionist style that brought the study of the transient effects of natural light to its most refined expression....
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