Why are Monet's 'Water Lilies' paintings so popular?

To think, the course of modern art could have been so different if the council bureaucrats had got their way. Monet had moved with his family to the commune of Giverny, 50 miles west of Paris, in 1883 and keenly begun filling his garden with arbours, fruit trees and ornamental flowers. read more

Claude Monet, 'Water-Lily Pond', 1899 © The National Gallery, London. The water lilies weren’t just a source of prolonged inspiration for Monet, though: in a way, his paintings serve as an alternative diary for him. read more

First of all, let me state that I used to have a very low opinion of Monet’s paintings. I felt that rather than just trying to make a beautiful painting he had an ideological ax to grind and his works were illustrations of a theory (like Seurat’s pointillism) rather than a sincere expression of his aesthetics. read more

Short answer for this, Claude monet was an impressionist painter,(hence the word “impression”) Monet painted it with his own feelings and impressions of depicting colors and light despite of his little evidence about his subject. read more