Water Lilies by Claude Monet

Water Lilies by Claude Monet is a painting that changed the way that painting was done and the way that people viewed paintings in terms of realism. Claude Monet was the founder of French impressionist painting. This is a style where the goal is to give an impression of the nature of the object that your painting about, not to do and exact replica. Water Lilies is a painting where the brush strokes are much larger and the paint is much thicker, this all adds to the impression of a pond with water lilies. the main colors in the painting are blues and greens, which reflect the actual way that a pond covered in water lilies would look. The composition of the painting is completely the pond and just the pond. Thought its interesting to see the reflection of the trees above and also how the water lilies get bigger in the foreground and are smaller in the background. this painting is important to the history of painting not only because it represents a newly developed style of painting, but also because it shows how the culture changed along side the style.