Enchanting madness. Claude Monet and Water Lilies

By 1914, the noisy battles, who marked the birth of the rebellious group of impressionist artists, had long become history, and the young rebels provoked them-those who have not yet left this world-turned into the gray-bearded patriarchs of French painting. Claude Monet, who turned 73 years old, settled in Zhiverni, where he arranged his personal Paradise Garden with man -made ponds and breeding lilies. French newspapers informed readers that the famous master retired to rest.
And yet, newspapers hurried to write off Monet from accounts. Contrary to personal and world cataclysms, contrary to unwell, uncertainty in his abilities and a respectable age, the artist began to embody the most large -scale artistic project in his entire artistic career - a grandiose cycle of landscapes with water lilies