From Monet’s Last Years: The Water Lilies and More via Zoom Online
Join us for this fascinating talk from Michael Norris, Ph.D.
A quote from Sophocles inspired this talk, “We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.” For Oscar Claude Monet (1840-1926), his last years upheld his reputation, despite cataract surgeries and the loss of loved ones. During these thirty-six years, he painted more abstractly, often creating series of pictures focused on the same subject, reducing details as he dramatically rendered light and atmosphere into a textured paint surface of harmonies and vivid contrasting colors. Monet’s last great effort was creating dozens more paintings of water lilies (he ended up producing about 250 of them during his lifetime) based on the ones thriving within his own garden in Giverny, a village fifty miles from Paris. Included in the talk are works of art from local museums, such as the Brooklyn Museum; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, in New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the Princeton Museum of Art.
Please register to receive the Zoom link.
- Date:
- Thursday, December 18, 2025
- Time:
- 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
- Audience:
- Adult
- Categories:
- Adult Programs