Claude Monet Haystacks Essay
Claude Monet, Haystacks (Effect of snow and sun), French
Impressionism (1891), Oil on canvas
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is full of exciting and mesmerizing thousands and thousands of pieces of artwork. One could find an artwork as prehistoric as the early people and as recent as from the 21st century at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. However, from the small list of objects which I was given, I had to choose only one to discuss, which is a really hard task if you ask me. Writing about one piece of artwork is almost similar to writing about my best place in the world. There are so many places in the world and so many pieces of artworks which I haven’t seen yet but I would like to see them as many as possible, but writing about one particular one is a difficult task. However, from the list of artworks that I had seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I was most mesmerized by Haystacks (Effect of Snow and Sun) by Claude Monet. The reason I chose to write about this particular piece of work is due to the way it attracted me. I would suggest everyone to go see this painting due to the reasons I will be discussing. …show more content…
First of all, the painting was really small. According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art description on the wall, the size of the painting is 25 ¾ x 36 ¼ inches. This was painted by Monet in the year 1891 near his house in Giverny, France. It’s a French painting and it’s painted in oil on canvas. It’s considered from the impressionism period even though, according to most books, the impressionism period ended in the year 1886. During the time period of summer 1890 and winter 1891, Monet painted about thirty paintings of haystacks. According to Monet, he painted those paintings in different settings and under different light in order to achieve a “series of different
Impressionism (1891), Oil on canvas
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is full of exciting and mesmerizing thousands and thousands of pieces of artwork. One could find an artwork as prehistoric as the early people and as recent as from the 21st century at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. However, from the small list of objects which I was given, I had to choose only one to discuss, which is a really hard task if you ask me. Writing about one piece of artwork is almost similar to writing about my best place in the world. There are so many places in the world and so many pieces of artworks which I haven’t seen yet but I would like to see them as many as possible, but writing about one particular one is a difficult task. However, from the list of artworks that I had seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I was most mesmerized by Haystacks (Effect of Snow and Sun) by Claude Monet. The reason I chose to write about this particular piece of work is due to the way it attracted me. I would suggest everyone to go see this painting due to the reasons I will be discussing. …show more content…
First of all, the painting was really small. According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art description on the wall, the size of the painting is 25 ¾ x 36 ¼ inches. This was painted by Monet in the year 1891 near his house in Giverny, France. It’s a French painting and it’s painted in oil on canvas. It’s considered from the impressionism period even though, according to most books, the impressionism period ended in the year 1886. During the time period of summer 1890 and winter 1891, Monet painted about thirty paintings of haystacks. According to Monet, he painted those paintings in different settings and under different light in order to achieve a “series of different