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In each of his In October 1890 Monet wrote a letter about his Monet painted the Before combine harvesters were invented threshing paintings, the haystacks paintings. He said…. same haystacks in machines would travel from village to village colour of the different seasons Often the haystacks is e I’m hard at it, workinge and differente types haystacks would e different because d d d d i stubbornly on a seriesi of of weather.i be left standing i the light shining l l l l S different effects,S but at this S from July until S on the haystacks time of year the sun sets so March waiting is different. e e These paintings e e l fast lthat it’s impossible to l for the threshing l p p show the haystacks p p Monet tried to keep up with it! machine to visit m m in winter snow andm m paint his impressiona a I want to paint what I can see a the farm. a of what he saw as at the very moment I see it. summer sunshine. S S S This is Monet’sS painting of the haystack on a the light changed. foggy morning. 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.