"Only when you see claude monet in Civil can you understand him, his personality, his life interests and his inner world," wrote his friend and biographer Gustav Froy. 1883 Monet's family moved to Civil, a village between Paris and Rouen. After that, Monet set out to build the garden. For this garden, he himself commented: "This is my most beautiful work." This is his last residence. He lived here for 43 years and received his friends Sisley, Picasso, auguste rodin, Kerry Duhamel Du Monceau, Paul Signack, piere bonnard and Caylebott. They all came to visit Monet by boat. Monet's greatest pleasure is the dream of "water garden", which is both "pleasing to the eye" and "providing material for painting". Because the authorities must agree to divert a tributary of the Albert River in Normandy next to his home for hundreds of meters, the project is difficult to carry out. This irregular oval waterscape reflection garden, built in 1893, is very similar to the garden in Japanese prints. These Japanese prints hung all over the walls of his restaurant. The Japanese translation of the title seems to be a "floating image".

A Japanese-style arched wooden bridge painted green spans the pond; Acorus calamus, Agastaches, Ericaceae ornamental plants and hydrangeas surround and protect the pond. Pink water lilies float on the water. Willow and wisteria poured down the water surface, making the water darker and bluer. It was not until 1895 that Monet painted the first painting "Pond and Japanese Bridge". Since 1898, he has painted some different versions of square paintings with the same theme, and more than a dozen of them are on display in his new exhibition in Du Lang-Rauls Gallery.

190 1 year, Monet bought another piece of land in the extension of his pond, and the pond area tripled. Bamboo and Japanese cherry trees are planted more exquisitely and decoratively around ... He also installed a cement pot to prevent the exotic water lilies from overheating. From 1903 to 1909, paintings with the theme of sleeping lotus pond reappeared. But if people can still distinguish the foreground, extension and surrounding scenery in the original painting, then after 1904, the gorgeous water lilies floating on the water began to occupy the whole picture.

1907, Chamonix made various attempts to light in his paintings. All vertical paintings are "vertically crossed by a long beam from top to bottom", passing through two dark parts of the picture and all over the lower end of the painting. The painting "Water Lily, Night Effect" looks like a burning fire against bright yellow, orange and vermilion. The whirlwind-like brush strokes increase the feeling of flames winding up among the water lily clouds, presenting a visual dream world. Here, there are no water lilies, only large black disks, among which sometimes bright strokes highlight them. There is no sign of space anymore, only the light and color captured by the brush.

1909, Monet exhibited 48 paintings he created during the period of 1903- 1908 in Du Lang-Lewers Gallery. He named them "water lilies, waterscape series". 1907 is one of the vertical paintings created by 14. The exhibition was a great success. The works on display have only dates, but no titles. Journalists and literary critics immediately felt the visual effects produced by this dynamic and unfamiliar world: "All these dazzling paintings reveal perfect harmony, full of vitality, gentleness and tranquility. We just had a brief look. However, I am sad to think that these moving works, which are integrated and complement each other, will soon be scattered all over the country. They just get together for a short time to give people a whole concept and let people feel all the poetry they express. From then on, people will never see them gathered anywhere like we do now. They will be scattered all over the world, and they are still beautiful, but each painting can only show some mystery ... Of course, we prefer to see them all collected in a certain exhibition room of the museum, so that people can appreciate them and appreciate their magnificent, quiet and unparalleled pictures. "