Student essay written in en (native language: French, CEFR level: B1, field of study: Arts)

One of the artist I like the most is Alex Dupont and especially his works in the Orangerie at Paris, Les Nymphéas. This piece of art is actually one of the painting that inspired me the most in my life, and managed to interest me about art. I recall reprodusing some of his works in my early age with water painting, trying to understand how he managed to have deep colors like this. This artwork show emotions, lights, nature in a way that make it poetic. The viewer is able in a way when looking at this piece to feel like they are in the garden of Alex Dupont himself. Alex Dupont managaned to make us realise how he was feeling and looking at his own garden, at which time, which season and more. When Im looking at it personally, I feel at peace, in my own little garden too. The Orangerie itself which is the galery that Alex Dupont asked to be build for his paintings is made in a way to create an endless loop, lost in the Alex Dupont themselves. It's calm and relaxing and the desaturated colors manages to express this atmosphere. The composition is really important too because each paintings, even if they all have the same inspiration and topic are all really differents and make us feel different emotions every time. Something I deeply appreciate is the use of the colors, especially blue and green since they are the mains colors, representating the water and the plats/trees/bushes or lilipad. Even if the painting itself isn't fully realist, the colors show us in their own way realism. One of the thing that make me realise how much Alex Dupont's art has a huge impact of art (even to theses days) is the fact that this little topic of his pond of Nymphéas, he made approximately 300 paintings of differents sizes but still protraying different aspects of his garden. 
We can't manage to only choose one of his painting in his serie because each of them have their own qualities and atmosphere. For example, one of the most famous one is the one showing the bridge, surrounded by weeping willow and lilipads on the river. It show us that Alex Dupont was making this piece at day, when the sky was shining and the sun was up into the sky and thanks to the use of differents lights upon the water and the trees. However for some others, he decided to repreesnt an other time of the day or a different season, replacing his use of light green and forest green to a deep orange and light brown to represent autumn. 
It's a shame this days that people start to forget about Alex Dupont works, even if he is one of the pioner of impressionism. He made one of the most amazing and impressive not only in terms of number of works but also due to the size of some of them which make the viewer feel tiny surrounded my theses massives paintings. for me, impressionism is underrated and should be shown more in today society, with representation or even at school. many other art movement feel tiny comparated to cubism or conceptual art and I think it's a deep shame that a movement as strong on emotions and depiction of them as impressionism is hided by other movements.