what was the purpose or why was the painting 'water lily pond and bridge' -claude monet produced?

Question

for a school project, i need to answer this but i cant find any info anywhere!

Answer 1

There's not real answer to this. It is simply a painting of a garden in Giverny that Monet owned. He did a lot of these paintings just before he died. There's no reason to it. He was an impressionist. He painted the things around him because they were pretty. There's no significance to it.

Answer 2

For the last 20 years of his life, Monet's main subject for his paintings was his garden in Giverny. As such, he produced around 250 paintings of his garden, focusing mainly on his water lily pond there.

When doing these paintings, Monet's main focus was on the effects of light. As such, he painted the pond during different seasons, times of day and weather conditions. This enabled him to depict how these differences in conditions offered different light which in turn affected the subject in his paintings. As such, the whole series of water lilies are a study in light and effect.

In his older days, Monet suffered from cataracts which i turn affected his perception of colors. This affected his own use of colors to depict his garden, thus providing a clear distinction between his pre and post cateract work.

Answer 3

Monet did about 250 paintings of his garden at Giverney, and as with all of his works, he chose these subjects because they interested him from the point of view of light, color, and form. From an artistic point of view, they were intriguing to study and paint, and they were right there: easy for an old man with failing eyesight to examine.