My Favorite Painting of
— Claude Monet —
Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge
Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge symbolizes Monet's Giverny Gardens and the
paintings they served as inspiration for, two of his finest accomplishments. After relocating to Giverny in
1883, Monet started making improvements to the area right
once. He loved gardening, and he used it as a second artistic medium. His Asian garden wasn't a part of the
original
property; instead, it was on a nearby plot of land with a tiny brook that he bought in 1893 and expanded
into a pond for a
water garden. With the addition of exotic plants like bamboo, ginkgo, Japanese fruit trees, and a
footbridge, he
transformed the area into an imaginative image of cool greens and tranquil, reflective waters. But it wasn't
until 1899 that he
started a sequence of images of the location, of which this is one.
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