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Water Lilies (French: Nymphéas) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). The paintings depict his flower garden at his home in Giverny , and were the main focus of his artistic production during the last thirty years of his life.
In France, a few pieces in Arthur Rimbaud's prose poem collection Illuminations were arranged in manuscript in lines, rather than prose, and in the Netherlands, tachtiger (i.e., a member of the 1880s generation of innovative poets) Frederik van Eeden employed the form at least once in his poem "Waterlelie" ("Water Lily"). [47]
The Water Lilies is a 1919 painting by impressionist Claude Monet, one of his Water Lilies series. The painting, the left hand panel of a large pair, depicts a scene in Monet's French pond showing light reflecting off the water with water lilies on the surface. It is on display in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. [1] [2] [3]
Goldberry is associated with water lilies, and her house is surrounded by a water lily pond.Painting by Claude Monet, 1897. Goldberry first appeared in Tolkien's 1934 poem, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, [4] re-worked into a 1962 poetry collection of the same name. [5]
The Sangam landscape (Tamil: அகத்திணை "inner classification") is the name given to a poetic device that was characteristic of love poetry in classical Tamil Sangam literature. The core of the device was the categorisation of poems into different tiṇai s or modes, depending on the nature, location, mood and type of relationship ...
The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley. [2] Written in 1862–1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine , it was first published in its entirety in 1863.
Plants of the genus are known commonly as water lilies, [3] [5] or waterlilies in the United Kingdom. The genus name is from the Greek νυμφαία, nymphaia and the Latin nymphaea , which means "water lily" and were inspired by the nymphs of Greek and Latin mythology .
Noland was also active as a photographer [5] and, as Valora Tree, authored the books "Horse Stories", and Water Lily Ponds, a volume of poetry. [6] Noland died on March 27, 2022, at the age of 80 in Sebastopol, California. [3]