Art Analysis: Claude Monets Water Lilies :: Claude Monet Visual Art Painting Essays Papers

Have you ever looked at a pond and squinted your eyes? Well if you concur you would know exactly how Claude Monet felt. Around the time of this painting Monet was losing his eyesight. It seems to me that this painting was actually meant to be realistic, Monet just painted what he saw, how he saw it. Its kind of supernatural how he achieved this fuzzy look, he doesnt use any real hard edges on any of the forms, but they arent really faded that much either, It could just be the use of alike colour (in this case green and blue) which make the edges of the lilies fade into the edge of the water.One thing I cant figure out is how this painting is fit so well. The concept of putting all the lilies on the right side would seem to me to weigh that side down. Then once again the alike colors come into play and they just seem to fade into each other when you stand back and look at it as a whole. Then similarly the flowers at the bottom of the painting are the brightest part of it and sinc e they are in the middle they just tied(p) it out by being the most observant part. When I first saw this painting I didn?t really see a feeling that Monet was trying to convey. Then I learned that he was loosing his eyesight and went back to look once more. The second time I had ever seen it it gave me the message that as you get older things start to fall unconnected and get fuzzy. It also seems to be the same message in all the paintings after that , because they seem to get weirder and more abstract. Like he cant even control whats going on in his own life.