Home/Symbols/Enclosing greenery (grasses and drooping foliage)Enclosing greenery (grasses and drooping foliage) SymbolismSanctuary and inwardness—an enclosed garden that shelters contemplation.Common ThemesAge & agingThe divine & the sacredMimesis vs. abstraction (truth vs. artifice)Originality, authorship, and appropriationSeasons & cyclesLandscape & placeArtworks Featuring This SymbolThe Japanese BridgeClaude Monet (1899)Claude Monet’s The Japanese Bridge centers a pale <strong>blue‑green arch</strong> above a horizonless pond, where water‑lily pads and blossoms punctuate a field of shifting reflections. The bridge reads as both structure and <strong>contemplative threshold</strong>, suspending the eye between surface shimmer and mirrored depths <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup>.
