Waterlily is the most interesting thing I have ever painted.
It offers vast amount of flexibility to represent this subject matter and gives
the artist the utmost freedom for creativity. Waterlilies have relaxed the accuracy
requirement on size, perspective, proportion, local color, and shapes, so I can
fully concentrate on the geometrical composition, texture variation, and color
design without worrying my painting going too abstract to leave the
representational paradigm. The reflections in the water provide mainly the
vertical rhythmic structures while the lily pads generate most the horizonal resonance.
These two-dimensional periodic patterns interweave together and created endless
opportunities for artists to compose astonishing spatial music. I got hooked
immediately after I did my first waterlily painting, and it explains why Claude
Monet did not touch any other subject matters after he started painting
waterlilies.
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