Orangerie des Tuileries
the Orangerie Museum
The culminating honor of Monet's
career was the installation in the Orangerie des Tuileries, a museum in central
Paris, of monumental paintings of water lilies, on which he had worked for more
than a decade preceding his death. In these works reality seems to dematerialize
as he expresses the interplay of color, light, foliage, and reflection in a
tangled mass of brushstrokes. With his eyesight beginning to fail in his final
years, Monet explored his subject so closely and thoroughly that the whole
dissolved into its parts and began to resemble abstract art.
Water Lilies of Claude Monet
Monet, Claude Oscar (1840-1926),
French painter, a leading figure in the late-19th-century movement called
impressionism. Monet's paintings captured scenes of middle-class life and the
ever-changing qualities of sunlight in nature. His technique of applying bright,
unmixed colors in quick, short strokes became a hallmark of impressionism.
Rodin sculpture in the Garden
Rodin
Rodin, (François) Auguste René
(1840-1917), French sculptor, who imbued his work with great psychological
force, which was expressed largely through texture and modeling. He is regarded
as the foremost sculptor of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
the restored Orangerie Museum
