Lotus Garden A landscape from his trip

A landscape from his trip to Netherlands

Women in the Garden is an oil painting begun in 1866 when he was 26

Three further works from the proposed series survive

The Beach at Sainte-Adresse (1867) give a clear accounting of Monet's advance toward the Impressionist style

Lotus Garden A landscape from his tripThe Lotus, the national flower of India, is a symbol of supreme reality. Hindu religion and mythology portray goddess Saraswathi, the muse of learning, as being seated on a lotus flower. To the Indian psyche, the lotus is more than a flower it represents both beauty and non attachment. There is a saying that although it grows in mud, it smells of myrrh. Toru Dutt in her sonnet "The Lotus" addresses the flower as the queenliest flower that