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Group: Giverny Artist: Claude MONET Birth/Death: 1840–1926 Title: Waterlilies Date Made: 1907 Lender: Musé Marmottan-Monet, Paris The fading sunset is extinguishing details of flowers and leaves. The brushstrokes are broad — great sweeps of curving strokes. The painting gives the strange impression that the artist was almost floating over the lower part of the pool; while the more distant reflection of the setting sun dissolves the surface of the water and the islands of leaves seem to float like planets in space. In the hallucinatory experience of these contradictory dimensions, one loses the sense of where one stands in space, and thus loses the sense of a centred consciousness, which seems to dissolve into the ‘other space’ of the painting. More details Click image to enlarge