Eye of the beholder.WHAT MONET SAW HE GAVE TO THE WORLD. He saw the infinite beauty of the most ordinary of things--a water-lily pond. He saw the dynamism and variability in objects that many of us would regard as generic: lilies and water. But Monet saw that each lily in each season at each time of day was an irrepeatable astonishment. What Monet saw when he gazed on his water lilies Water Lilies (or Nympheas) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840-1926). The paintings depict Monet's flower garden at Giverny and were the main focus of Monet's artistic production during the last thirty years , God must see when beholding creation. Irrepeatable astonishment. Infinity coded in a single leaf. Eternity uttered in the late hours of a summer's afternoon. Beloved. By WENDY M. WRIGHT, from The Time Between: Cycles and Rhythms in Ordinary Time.[C] 1999 Wend Wend Any member of a group of Slavic tribes that by the 5th century AD had settled in the area between the Oder and Elbe rivers in what is now eastern Germany. They occupied the eastern borders of the domain of the Franks and other Germanic peoples. ), M. Wright. Used by permission of Upper Room Books. Image: Water Lilies (ca. 1920) by Claude Monet (1840-1926). Oil on canvas, left panel of a triptych, each section 14 x 6.5 feet. Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Simon Guggenheim (December 30, 1867 - November 2, 1941) was an American businessman and philanthropist. The son of Meyer Guggenheim and younger brother of Daniel Guggenheim and Solomon R. Fund (666.1959.1.). The Museum of Modern Art, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . Image[C] The Museum of Modern Art. Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, N.Y. |
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