Love Monet? Bring his "Magpie" or "Haystacks" Into Your Interior Space.

Claude Monet "Haystacks"

Haystacks is a title of a series of impressionist paintings by Claude Monet. The primary subjects of all of the paintings in the series are stacks of hay in the field after the harvest season. The title refers primarily to a twenty-five canvas series. The series is known for its thematic use of repetition to show differences in perception of light across various times of day, seasons, and types of weather.

 

Claude Monet "The Magpie"

 

The canvas of The Magpie depicts a solitary black magpie perched on a gate

formed in a wattle fence, as the light of the sun shines upon freshly fallen snow creating blue shadows. The painting features one of the first examples of Monet's use of colored shadows, which would later become associated with the Impressionist movement. Monet and the Impressionists used colored shadows to represent the actual, changing conditions of light and shadow as seen in nature, challenging the academic convention of painting shadows black. #paintingstogo