Go see – New York: 'Monet's Water Lilies' at MoMA through April 12, 2010

October 2nd, 2009


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A detail from Monet’s “Water Lilies” triptych via NYTimes

After a 7-year long absence, the Museum of Modern Art has brought its Waterlilies back along with an interesting recent acquisition and two paintings on loan from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The breathtaking triptych still holds the power to engulf the viewer in its transcendent and meditative quality. The accompanying paintings complete the experience by physically surrounding one in their lightness of color, spontaneous and sometimes pensive stroke, and a velvet-like surface that suggests a deeper psychological imprint of Monet, who worked on these particularly large pieces for years towards the end of his life. The exhibition, occupying a specially intimate gallery space, will be on view until April 12th, 2010.

Related Links:
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MoMA Homepage
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Moanin’ With Monet [ArtNet]
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Serenade in Blue [NY Times]
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Water World [New Yorker]
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Monet’s Water Lilies Light Up MoMA [NY Sun]
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MoMA Presents… [Art Daily]

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One of the panels of “Water Lilies” masterpiece via MoMA

The significance and history of the large panoramic Water Lillies is that of the Museum of Modern Art itself. Its acquisition, along with the large single canvas of Lilies that hangs opposite, dates back to shortly after the tragic 1958 fire destroyed the two original Monet painting previously purchased by Alfred H. Barr from Monet’s studio in Gyverny. These particular pieces were also part of the record-breaking 19060 solo show of Monet’s work that officially bridged the transition from Paris to New York as the art capital of the world.


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One of smaller paintings accompanying the triptych, a late Monet titled “Japanese Footbridge” via NYTimes

The large paintings are remarkable not only in their well preserved quality but also in the particular significance they hold in relation to Monet’s life. The Water Lilies series were originally dismissed as failures by the general public when exhibited at The Orangerie in Paris in 1920’s and recieved few visitors in the following 20 years.


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A vibrant pleine-air study “Agapantus” via NYTimes
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It was not until the advent of Abstract Impressionism, and especially the work of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, that Monet’s Water Lilies were looked at in a new light. As part of MoMA’s 1960 exhibition they were presented in abstract non-figurative view. This renewed perspective gave Water Lillies a mythical quality that was not understood previously. They have since become the beloved treasures of the Museum of Modern Art collection, not quite fitting with the rest of its canon. Now the Water Lillies are back in a quieter, more fitting presence to be admired and studied at a reflective pace intended by Monet himself.


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Water Lilies in panoramic view via Flickr


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A smaller scale Water Lilies (1914-1926) via Artdaily

Google Nexus One for Android Developers Now Sold Out.(Technology) this web site google nexus prime

Manila Bulletin August 28, 2010 Google had officially axed the Google Nexus One back in July due to faltering interest and various problems that came along with it.

However after some period, the Google Nexus One was once again offered but this time to registered Android programmers for only $529.

Now while that limitation may have put the Google Nexus One as a “developer’s phone” for the time being, these phones also ran out and are now sold out.

This Google phone version already had Android 2.2 running on it and apparently the Nexus One was still a hot item even if it was just offered to developers. here google nexus prime

To date there is no word if the Google Nexus One stock would be replenished but you have to wonder if the Google Nexus One was indeed a phone that showed promise. Why else would the phone be sold out?

There were apparently some issues as far as the technical infrastructure of the phone as well as the marketing efforts used by Google. It even came to a point where Google wanted the phones to be sold solely by them and not by retailers.

The Google Nexus One is not among the hottest phones to hit Philippine soil but you just have to wonder how it would have fared if it did. Well from the looks of it, we will never know.

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