Claude Monet's Haystacks at Chailly at Sunrise

 
 
 
 
According to Tansey and Kleiner (1996), the Impressionists "sought to create the illusion of forms bathed in light and atmosphere" (989). So it is with Claude Monet's Haystacks at Chailly at Sunrise, an oil on canvas measuring 30 x 60 cm and painted in 1865 (Monet 1865). Landscapes were a common subject of the Impressionists in the latter 19th century. In this particular landscape, the sunrise is used to accentuate a number of haystacks in a field. Compositionally, Monet uses the different sizes of the haystacks and the low-lying clouds to draw the viewer's gaze to the vanishing point of the sun rising. Monet uses color to provide a left-leaning horizon to the picture, drawing the viewer to the muted town to the left of the field. As Tansey (et al. 1996) notes, Monet labeled


     
 
 
 
    

 

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