Claude Monet - The Water Lily obsession

by Nicolas Thépot

2018

Claude Monet - The Water Lily obsession

by Nicolas Thépot

2018

Immersive experience

Cultural outreach and education

Virtual reality

Visual arts

Immersive experience

Cultural outreach and education

Virtual reality

Visual arts

Institut français program

VR Selection

VivePort Developer Award 2019

Through a 360° video and an interactive experience in virtual reality Claude Monet - The Water Lily obsession takes you to the locations where this work was produced, and immerses you in the process of painting this unique piece.

VR headset, Computer

Suitable for all audiences

from 6 to 8 minute(s)

Multiple languages

Update : 10/06/2024

Claude Monet : the Water Lily obsession (©Lucid Realities)

Musée de l'Orangerie (©Lucid Realites)

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In 1883 painter Claude Monet first rented a house in the French town of Giverny. After purchasing the property and adjoining land, the artist transformed an existing small pond into a water garden with water lilies and a Japanese-style bridge from which he could observe the water and the flowers. From 1899 to 1926, Monet painted more than 250 scenes devoted to the water lily theme, which became what he himself called “an obsession.”

Through a dialogue between Claude Monet and his old friend, stateman George Clemenceau, this contemplative VR experience invites the user on a sensory journey starting off in Claude Monet’s garden, stopping along the way at the workshop of the artist and ending in the exhibition rooms of the Orangerie Museum. The user is given the opportunity to relive a perpetual renewal of nature, to explore time and space while immersed in the Water lilies paintings.