Name: Monet's Water Lilies
Released: 2020-11-06

Great Art Explained

S1 · E9 — Monet's Water Lilies

S1:E9 · Monet's Water Lilies

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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci (short version)

13 min

Picasso’s Guernica

Michelangelo's David

15 min

The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault

15 min

Frida Kahlo's 'The Two Fridas"

15 min

The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck

15 min

Artemisia Gentileschi

15 min

Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych

15 min

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Mark Rothko's Seagram Murals

15 min

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The Thinker by Rodin

15 min

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Monet's Water Lilies

Season 1 · Episode 9 · Nov 6, 2020

Claude Monet is often criticised for being overexposed, too easy, too obvious, or worse, a chocolate box artist. His last works, the enormous water lily canvasses are among the most popular art works in the world. Yet there is nothing tame, traditionalist, or cosy about these last paintings. These are his most radical works of all. They turn the world upside down with their strange, disorientating and immersive vision. Monet’s water lilies have come to be viewed as simply an aesthetic interpretation of the garden that obsessed him. But they are so much more. These works were created as a direct response to the most savage and apocalyptic period of modern history. They were in fact conceived as a war memorial to the millions of lives tragically lost in the First World War.

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Monet's Water Lilies

Season 1 · Episode 9 · Nov 6, 2020

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