RT Journal
A1 Harris JC
T1 Waterlilies: Green reflections
JF Archives of General Psychiatry
JO Archives of General Psychiatry
YR 2003
FD February 1
VO 60
IS 2
SP 120
OP 120
DO 10.1001/archpsyc.60.2.120
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.60.2.120
AB 
CLAUDE MONET'S (1840-1926) final masterpiece, Le cycle des Nymphéas, was a gift to the French nation to celebrate France's victory in the First World War. Housed at the Musée national de l'Organgerie des Tuileries in Paris, there are a series of 22 water landscapes in 2 adjacent rooms. The paintings of water lilies, weeping willows, and the reflections of light onto the surface of the water are a final and permanent record of 25 years of Monet's observations and reflections in his water lily garden at Giverny, his home outside Paris. The water garden, Monet said, was a way to experience as in microcosm the instability of the universe that transforms itself at every moment before our eyes; he said he tried to stop the universe with the blue dome of heaven reflected in its shadows. The paintings are