Appreciation of Monet's Water Lily

Look at the impressionist picture books and meditate before Monet's painting "Water Lily".

I believe that people who look at paintings will sink into the dark green pond, quietly hold their breath, meditate, sigh, walk quietly, and then turn around frequently.

Eyes are flowing water, and they become flowers in dreams ... Those "sleeping" and "awake" flowers are branded in the viewer's mind and open for a long time.

The lotus pond in Monet's life is in his garden outside Paris. This garden, called Qimuhua, is colorful, and its light and shadow colors make it a gorgeous and lush scene. Monet likes water lilies. There is no pond in the garden. He designed it carefully and hired someone to dig it. When the pond is completed, it is full of water and leads to all parts of the garden. He also built a Japanese-style bridge over the pool. Flowers, trees and bridges are reflected in the water and have special light colors. Monet got up early in the morning and went to the garden to say hello to his flowers and trees. He is 60 years old this year.

I am 60 years old. I think how young I was when I painted Impression of Sunrise! The painting of sunrise scene in le havre has been criticized by academic painters. Critics sarcastically called Impression of Sunrise "Impressionism" because it is not like a real painting. The derogatory term "impression" soon spread and became the title of a painting school. Later, Monet became famous.

The water lilies are in full bloom in the pond. Green leaves are floating on the water. These flowers stick out of the water. The color is bright and contains fragrance. Monet set up several easels by the pool to capture the color changes of light and shadow in the fastest way and show the instantaneous visual light effect on the canvas.

The water lilies on his canvas have various shapes and colors: flowers and leaves in the shady background, hazy flower shadows in blue mist, colorful lines, and only wild freehand brushwork without color blocks ... All water lilies are ethereal and beautiful.

Later, Monet, who was over 60 years old, felt that the scene of the garden was becoming more and more blurred. Monet's cataract is already very serious. Blindness is a fatal blow to painters. Does old age, lack of energy and blurred vision mean the end of a painter's artistic career? At this time, he can enjoy his old age in his garden, and his achievements are enough to make him famous in the history of art. Monet refused to put down his brush. Time flies, life is short, and he has to leave color on the canvas. He designed and built a large studio with light from the ceiling, and continued to paint large water lily paintings. Sometimes, he only depends on the label number on the paint tin can to determine the color, and continues to draw with his strong memory of the color in the past.

With persistent pursuit, the octogenarian still won the success of the annual art exhibition in Paris.

At the age of 83, he finally had cataract surgery, which was very successful, and he could see the colorful colors of nature again!

Light and shadow are still jumping in front of him, and he wants to keep the most beautiful color.

The water lily painting he finished in his later years is more abstract and romantic.

When life is integrated into art, everything in the painting has life.

Art is not only the expression of skill, but also the condensation of the author's painstaking efforts. In front of Monet's "Water Lily Map", we saw the exquisite magical nature and the artist's holy heart.

The poet Malamei has such a poem:

"... it's dark white,

Including such an empty dream,

Contains a kind of happiness that never existed,

All we can do is hold our breath,

Hail to the phantom ... "

We felt the same way before painting. We pay tribute to the phantom in the painting and to Monet's artistic creation.

Water lily is Monet's work in his later years, which depicts the visual effect of the sparkling water surface extending far away on the vertical plane in an amazing way. In the master's pen, the leaves of water lilies are pure green, but the flowers are like dark red flames. Seemingly random color lines, soft in the middle with softness, seem to make the water move, as if capturing the light and shadow of the water in an instant. Visitors standing by the painting, just like standing by the pond, can actually appreciate the artistic conception of Tang poetry, that is, "the lotus leaf is infinitely blue the next day, and the lotus flower is infinitely red the next day." I remember Proust's words: "On the water a little farther away, patches of water lilies are clustered together, just like a floating flower bed, as if those irises in the garden moved here, and butterflies just stopped their blue wings on the slope of this splash flower bed ... In the evening, it was like a distant harbor, covered with the rosy and dreamy brilliance of the sunset, constantly changing colors. Therefore, it is always in harmony with something deeper and more mysterious hidden in time-something that exists in infinity-around the corolla with relatively fixed color, the water lilies blooming on this water surface are like flowers blooming in the sky. "

Water lilies bloom in the water, reaching into the sky calmly and looking up at the sky without waves. "Water Lily" can be said to be a summary of Monet's life performance of light and color.