When viewed in the context of city vs. country, the Roeun Cathedral series and the haystacks (several pieces hang in the Art Institute of Chicago) are oppositely different. Here Claude Monet’s palettes — which he described as “harmonies” during his stay in the Normandy town — enjoy the expanse of an open landscape. In the [...]
Claude Monet produced over thirty paintings of the Rouen Cathedral. In most of them, the Gothic church is shown from the same angle; it is the colors that were the main subject of variation. By using unpredictable, sometimes improbable palette combinations — or “harmonies” — as Monet called them, the artist strove to capture the [...]
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