<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Claude Monet’s </span><em style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Water Lilies</em><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> paintings can be said to be a war memorial to the millions of lives tragically lost in World War I The eight large-scale canvasses leave viewers in “a vast field of unfathomable nothingness, of light, air, and water,” according to Great Art Explained creator James Payne. Monet’s final artworks were inspired by the happenings during World War I, and the artworks were finished eight years after. Open Culture dives deep into the inspiration of the artworks </span><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2021/10/monets-water-lilies.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+OpenCulture+(Open+Culture)" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">here.</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><em style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Image credit: wikimedia commons </em></p>