File:W1277 Grainstacks White Frost Effect.jpg

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Author	Claude Monet
Copyright holder	© National Galleries of Scotland
Image title	With more than 20 canvases painted between the end of summer 1890 and the following winter, the stacks of wheat which were already present in his earlier works had grown to become truly imposing and, more importantly, the main motif of Monet’s paintings. The series is composed of several sub-series which feature one or two stacks which are sometimes separate, sometimes close together, depending on the vantage point. The painter chose this theme principally because a piece of land near his house was used every year by an important farmer in Giverny as a storage area for his stacks. With the Haystacks, Monet’s series became a deliberate choice rather than simply being what he observed: ‘I am working hard, persisting with a series of different effects (on stacks), but the sun goes down so quickly at this time of year that I cannot keep up with it.’ The stacks became his motif of choice for studying forms of light. The painter was ‘looking for immediacy, especially in the “envelope”, the same light diffused everywhere’. For this he turned his attention to fleeting effects, variations created by the light at different times of day, as well as the season. The paintings reflect the position of the sun at the given moment through the lengthening of the shadows on the ground and the play of backlit effects. Fifteen or so Haystacks were presented at the exhibition ‘Recent Works of Claude Monet’ at the Durand-Ruel gallery in 1891.
Orientation	Normal
Horizontal resolution	300 dpi
Vertical resolution	300 dpi
Software used	Adobe Photoshop CS4 Macintosh
File change date and time	00:36, 22 August 2010
Color space	sRGB
IIM version	2
Short title	Haystacks, White Frost Effect
Keywords	Oil on canvas
Special instructions	65 cm x 92 cm
Image width	3,300 px
Image height	2,340 px
Contact information	Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland , ,
Writer	Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland
Date and time of digitizing	02:34, 22 August 2010
Date metadata was last modified	02:36, 22 August 2010
Unique ID of original document	xmp.did:C4BE1FD20D206811A888D079FA0C787C