Monet's Flowers

"I must have flowers always and always" Claude Monet

His garden, in addition to being his safe place, became his muse, the main motif of his paintings, especially during the last months of his life.

Claude Monet would embark on a small boat and navigate through his garden, thus observing how the light was reflected in the water and in his flowers, an essence he always sought to reflect in his paintings—the calm and happiness he felt when seeing the beauty of nature.

Monet was the key figure of the Impressionist movement.

The painter had two passions in life: art and gardening. It was he himself who planted his own garden, and every morning he would get up early to water the flowers and sow new species; he even built a water garden with a Japanese-style bridge.

Monet was the key figure of the Impressionist movement.

Furthermore, it was flowers that marked Impressionism; Monet's passion for gardening led him to define his artistic style, creating a living painting with its different species, with varying sizes and tones to create effects of perspective and interplay of colors.

Claude Monet and his lilies

Before his famous water gardens, Monet installed gardens around his house, and during his life he painted more than 250 oil pieces of his lily ponds and his Japanese bridge.

One of Claude Monet's most famous paintings is 'Water Lilies', which represents the search for a new way to transfer perspective. The shore, the sky, the horizon, the trees – everything is like a reflection in the water.

For so many years, the lily has been associated with traditional feminine values such as maternity, sweetness, and purity.

Nature is so beautiful that it was the main muse of one of history's most important painters.