Great Art Explained - Season 1 Episode 9 Monet's Water Lilies
Claude Monet is often criticised for being overexposed, too easy, too obvious, or worse, a chocolate box artist. His last works, the enormous water lily canvasses are among the most popular art works in the world. Yet there is nothing tame, traditionalist, or cosy about these last paintings. These are his most radical works of all. They turn the world upside down with their strange, disorientating and immersive vision. Monet’s water lilies have come to be viewed as simply an aesthetic interpretation of the garden that obsessed him. But they are so much more. These works were created as a direct response to the most savage and apocalyptic period of modern history. They were in fact conceived as a war memorial to the millions of lives tragically lost in the First World War.
First Air Date: May 29, 2020
Last Air date: Apr 26, 2024
Season: 5 Season
Episode: 39 Episode
Runtime: 26 minutes
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Popularity: 6.272
Language: English
Episode
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci (short version)
Picasso’s Guernica
Michelangelo's David
The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault
Frida Kahlo's 'The Two Fridas"
The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck
Artemisia Gentileschi
Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych
Monet's Water Lilies
Mark Rothko's Seagram Murals
The Thinker by Rodin
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