Water in Art: Claude Monet's Moulin A Zandaam

Moulin A Zandaam or Windmill of Zandaam
Claude Monet [Public domain, US-PD], via Wikimedia Commons

19th century French landscape painter Claude Monet is renowned worldwide as one of the founders of the French Impressionist painting movement.

His iconic waterscapes such as "Water Lilies" are among some of the best known and reproduced paintings in the world. This post features one of the 25 paintings that he made while staying at Zandaam in the Netherlands in the 1870s.

Water in Art: Riverscapes



 Painting - In Mouth of the Volkhov River, by Russian artist Nikolai Galakhov
Nikolai Nikolaevich Galakhov [CC BY-SA 3.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons

Human Expressions of Water: Art

Human beings have expressed their integral relationship with water in a number of forms.

The earliest human civilizations grew and thrived around sources of water.

Man has built and expressed his relationship with this element in a number of ways - through art, engineering and culture.

 Hovhannes Aivazovsky, a 19th century Russian painter is considered one of the greatest seascape artists is history. "The Ninth Wave" featured below is widely considered to be his best work.

The Ninth Wave By Hovhannes Aivazovsky (1817 - 1900) (Russian)
(Painter, Details of artist on Google Art Project) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons