Explain the painting "Water Lilies".
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Nymphaeaceae is a family of flowering plants, commonly called water lilies. They live as rhizomatous aquatic herbs in temperate and tropical climates around the world. The family contains five genera with about 70 known species. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Nymphaeaceae
Did you know: The leaves of lotus are emergent, meaning that they rise above the water level whereas the leaves of water lily float on the water surface.
The Water Lilies is a 1919 painting by impressionist Claude Monet, one of his Water Lilies series. The painting depicts a scene in Monet's French pond showing light reflecting off the water with water lilies on the surface. It is on display in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
One of Monet's larger paintings, it shows the beauty of the sunset reflecting off the water. In 1919, Claude Monet was an elderly man who had already had been painting for almost 70 years, and his Water Lilies series came during a time when he was mainly painting water lilies in his pond, the pond's bridge, and his garden.