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| − | When you move through the present day French country side in Normandy and Ile-de-France, it is easy to think that things there progress as they have always done, following the seasons of nature. Indeed, the idyllic vistas on offer make it hard to think that anything could be missing from this traditional Norman landscape. However, on closer inspection there is something missing. The haystacks.
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| − | Before the invention of the combined harvester the landscape was dotted with them from late summer until spring the next year. This was to keep the wheat in good shape before it could be threshed. The threshing machines would travel from village to village and it could be quite a while before it reached any given town. In the meantime, the wheat was stored inside these haystacks in order keep it fresh and well preserved. This could have to last a while as the last wheat was often not processed before the end of spring the year following its harvest. So the haystacks were an almost permanent feature.
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| − | However, while the haystacks were thus an aesthetic feature of the countryside for 100 years, they were not really appreciated as a thing of beauty. Indeed, they were considered common and not of any value aside from as a storage facility for wheat. This perception changed significantly when the haystacks outside of the small village of Giverny were used by French painter Claude Monet for a series of [http://claudemonet.devhub.com/claude-monet-paintings/ paintings] done between the summer of 1890 and the spring of 1891. Monet's initial idea was actually to paint only a few canvasses with the haystacks but that changed once he commenced on the project. Monet's true study was how the different light of different times, weather conditions and seasons affect their subject and create amazing light and color effects. Once he embarked on painting the haystacks he immediately seized upon how many different ways light could affect the way they were perceived by him. As a end result, he drastically improved the amount of canvasses he would paint for the series from a few to a lot more than twenty paintings. Monet labored on these paintings in parallel. He only painted on a given canvas when the shades and conditions were proper for that certain perception. Once this changed, he would modify to a different canvas that mirrored this new fact. This way, he labored on numerous canvasses on any given day. The ultimate series was accomplished in his studio to guarantee the two the necessary contrasts and the harmony of the complete series.
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| − | The Haystacks series was a economic good results for Monet. When he exhibited fifteen of the paintings from the series in 1891, the exhibition was fulfilled with important acclaim. This also translated into a enterprise good results as all fifteen paintings were offered inside of the 1st few times of the exhibition. It was this newfound good results that aided Monet acquire his residence in Giverny and start off perform on his drinking water lily pond there.
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| − | Nowadays, the haystacks are absent from the landscape but [http://claudemonet.devhub.com/ Monet] 's backyard garden is nevertheless there. But possibly it must actually be considered to re-create a few haystacks and give Giverny back again this very clear feature of the vintage French countryside. When Monet painted them calls for the conservation of rural French traditions adopted. Possibly the land of Monet would also nowadays reward from the traditional attribute that aided finance the close by drinking water lily pond.
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