The charming Water Lilies.

This picture by Claude Monet is one of a series of his later paintings called "Water Lilies". Living in Giverny, the artist himself creates a pond, where he raises amazing water lilies. Monet abandoned the traditional work in the open air, claiming that real beauty from a gaze escapes him. The master began to paint a landscape with lilies from memory in his workshop. This method of work filled the paintings with warmth, and reality harmoniously intertwined with abstraction.

The pond casts a fantastic blue and turquoise color. The reason for the appearance of such an amazing color is not only in the master's art technique. The fact is that in 1912, doctors diagnosed the artist with cataracts, because of which he had to undergo two operations. Monet lost the lens on his left eye, and his newfound vision distorted the master's color perception. The artist began to see ultraviolet as blue or lilac, so in the paintings of this series the viewer sees lilies with Monet's eyes in the ultraviolet instead of just white.

In the last years of Monet's life, he enthusiastically painted only water lilies in different variations. Death was distracted from this interesting occupation by the artist.

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