Monet continued to experiment with using color and brushwork in explosive ways as his career stretched into its sixth decade. Here the Japanese footbridge and waterlily pond that he created in his garden in Giverny, northwest of Paris, becomes an almost indecipherable riot of color and thickly encrusted paint.
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The animated strokes of orange, red, and green pigment appear almost abstract - foreshadowing a style of art that would soon become popular - while the flat surfaces and overall patterning reveal Monet's interest in the work of his younger contemporaries, some of which are on view in this room.
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