The Water Lily Pond Moneta Cross Stitch Kit by DMC Corporation

The water garden Monet built next to his house in Giverny became the main obsession of his career, inspiring 250 paintings. This kit allows you to experience a little slice of the gardens and a new perspective of this great artwork as you recreate the work in the worlds favorite embroidery thread, Six-Strand Embroidery Floss. Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of the impressionist movement which was named after one of his paintings - Impression, soleil levant. Impressionism is characterized by small, thin, visible brush strokes, open composition and an emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities. It features ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and includes movement as a crucial element of human perception.