Monet in Paris at Brisbane, Australia Part 2: "How I wish to see these flowers alive."

 Monet in Paris at Brisbane, Australia

"How I wish to see these flowers alive."

Dr Abe V Rotor

Flowers, flowers all around, above, below;

waterlilies of all kinds, and their tribe;

a garden, floral show, I really don't know,

 how I wish to see these flowers alive.

Art, you deceive the senses, hide the truth,

make a place a dream so inviting,

so tempting like the proverbial first fruit,

where joy was short and fleeting.

The author and his family visited the Monet in Paris museum

 in Brisbane on July 26, 2023.

"Flowers, flowers, demure;

Gertrude Stein would be amused:

a rose is a rose is a rose,

and much, much more."

 

"What difference does it make;

tell me for the artist's sake;

flowers in the hall,* on canvas,

those growing in the garden, 

 all are deemed from Eden."

                                                    

 *Made of plastic, paper and other materials.

Claude Monet, in full Oscar-Claude Monet, (born November 14, 1840, Paris, France—died December 5, 1926, Giverny), French painter who was the initiator, leader, and unswerving advocate of the Impressionist style. In his mature works, Monet developed his method of producing repeated studies of the same motif in series, changing canvases with the light or as his interest shifted.

Monet's Water Lilies (Nymphaea) are the most famous Monet paintings of all time. When we write about the famous waterlily paintings, we are in fact talking about 250 different canvases in oil. Claude Monet spent the last 30 years of his life painting water lilies. His muse was his waterlily pond in his garden in Giverny. Internet