Art 100
Heather Walker
7/16/15
Creating Fine Art As I enthusiastically drove to the Getty Museum on July tenth in the city of Los Angeles, I anticipated seeing innumerable aged paintings, sculptures, and drawings dated from centuries ago. I continued my adventure and came across a canvas painting that caught my uttermost attention called,” Wheatstacks, Snow Effect, Morning,” painted by Claude Monet. The attractive canvas painting was produced in the year of 1891 and positions nearly twenty six inches in width and thirty six inches in length, a moderate sized painting. The painting consists of two hay structures covered in snow as the sun sets and arrays shades between these wheatstacks. The soil is concealed by snowfall and it gives the impression as if winter is soon to come. As an Impressionist …show more content…
Wheatstacks displays fine definite outline and couture lines. The outer edge of the image to be precise, are shards of hay which Monet routines fine lines to accurately represent its actual appearance. The painting gives the impression as if it both wheatstacks are distant from each other because one is smaller than the other and there is space between each structure. Additionally, the artist uses three dimensional forms to imply depth, the height, and width of each wheatstack. The haystack ensures geometric shapes, the roof is a pyramidal or come shaped which portrays the structure to be high in the air and the base and side walls forms a cylinder. Monet displays a range of mountains along the horizon and tall trees in the distance. Proportionately, the haystacks are far grander in length and width than the mountains, houses, and trees in the distance because it allows the audiences to comprehend that the haystacks are closer in distance. The canvas painting shows visual texture displayed by the different angles of the hay and the ground also seems smooth and soft from snowfall but