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The Harvest Landscape MD 2008 Van Gogh and Monet Teachers’ notes This a self portrait by Vincent Van Gogh. He was born in the Brabant area of Holland in 1853. Look carefully at his painting. Can you see all his brush strokes? They look like he has painted with lines. 1853 - 1890Sample Slide wheat fieldSample Slide Van Gogh painted a lot of pictures of the countryside around him. This was one of the the last paintings that Vincent Sample Slide Van Gogh painted before he died. It is called wheat field with crows. Sample Slide Many of his pictures were painted at Sample Slide harvest time. wheat field with stacks In each of his paintings, the colour of the haystacks is Sheaves of wheat – July 1890 Vincent Van Gogh was very interested in the different because harvest. He often painted farmers at work. His the light shining paintings show us what it was like in those days. on the haystacks Sample Slide is different. Sheaves of wheat – August 1885 Monet tried to Sample Slide paint his impression of what he saw as SampClaudele Monet S wasl ai de the light changed. French painter who was Sample Slide born in France in 1840. In a field next to Monet’s Haystacks in house there were some Provence 1888 haystacks. The haystacks In October 1890 Monet wrote a letter about his were kept until the cut haystacks paintings. He said…. 1840 - 1926 crop could be threshed to separate the grains from the stalks. I’m hard at it, working Sample Slide stubbornly on a series of different effects, but at this time of year the sun sets so Sample Slide Monet painted pictures fast that it’s impossible to of the same haystacks Sample Slide Monet would get up before it The Siesta I want to paint what I can see to show them at keep up with it! was properly light and paint his at the very moment I see it. different times of the first picture for half an hour. 1889 day. By then the light would have changed so he would put the first picture aside and start to paint a new picture. 1890 Every time the light changed These paintings Monet painted the he would paint another show the haystacks same haystacks in picture of the haystacks. in winter snow and different seasons By the end of the day he summer sunshine. and different types had lots of differentSa pictures.mple Slide Sample Sof weather.lide Before combine harvesters were invented threshing machines would travel from village to village Often the haystacks would be left standing from July until March waiting for the threshing machine to visit the farm. This is Monet’s painting of the haystack on a foggy morning.Sample Slide TEACHERS’ NOTES: They both painted TEACHERS’ NOTES: haystacks but they Monet continued: Van Gogh used bright bold strokes and sharp colours using a series of lines painted in different and marks to paint rather than painting outlines and filling in blocks of colour. Monet tried to create both light and atmosphere in his paintings in an His strokes were done with a palette knife and the end of the brush. In some effective way. This later became an important aspect of the style of ways. They had e cases he squeezed the tube of paint directly onto the canvas. Line ande texture e impressionism. In order to create the effect of light and shade Monet d are predominant art elements apparent in many of his paintings.d His style of developed the technique of using dabs of colour. This techniqued then different styles of art is called “impressionism” – what you see is the artist’s impression of what li li created a feeling of atmosphere in the scene being portrayed.li This he is looking at. painting. S S means that if you look closely at a painting by SMonet you can see the Link to Van Gogh Landscapes ngfl-cymru (technique) brush strokes of colour. le Monet studied his subjects intently, plannedle his paintings and worked hard to le p achieve his results. He often paintedp a series of the same subject p www.ks1resources.co.uk (eg haystacks) to capture the changing affects of light, swapping canvases as m Which painting is the day progressed. He usedm a limited palette of colours, eventually banishing m browns and earth colours and, by 1886, black had disappeared. The colours he a by Monet and liked to use were white,a yellow, certain greens and blues and crimson. He often a S used colours straightS from the tube or mixed on the canvas. He built up S which is by Van texture using brush strokes which varied from thick to thin with tiny dabs of Gogh? colour from light to dark..

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