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Claude Monet: Rouen Cathedral
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Monet's interest in recording perceptual processes reached its apogee in his series paintings (e.g., Haystacks [1891], Poplars [1892], Rouen Cathedral [1894]) that dominate his output in the 1890s. In each series, Monet painted the same site again and again, recording how its appearance changed with the time of day. Light and shadow seem as substantial as stone in his Rouen Cathedral (30.95.250) series. Monet reports that he rented a room across from the cathedral's western facade in 1892 and 1893, where he kept multiple canvases in process and moved from one to the next as the light shifted. In 1894, he reworked the canvases to their finished states.
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Monet began to paint the lily pond in his garden at Giverny while he was completing his Rouen cathedral series. In the last decades of his life, his prized water garden became his most important—and eventually only—subject. He began construction of the water garden soon after he moved to Giverny, petitioning local authorities to divert water from the nearby river. Monet remade the landscape with the same artifice he applied to his paintings—and then he used it, in turn, as his creative focus.
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Monet traveled widely, painting in France, England and other countries. His works painted in London parks and in the Thames region are well-known. His early years were impoverished, and a degree of acclaim later in his life freed him to pursue subjects that most interested him. His fascination with light continued throughout his life, resulting in series of paintings done of the same subject but at different times of the day. "Haystacks or Grainstacks" (1890-91) and "Rouen Cathedral" (1891-95) are examples of his later work.
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Monet moved to Giverny in 1883, and the extensive gardens and lily ponds provided the inspiration for his later works. It was these gardens that inspired the Waterlilies series. From 1890 he concentrated on a series of works in which he painted the same subject at different times of the day in different light. The most popular of these are the Haystacks, Rouen Cathedral and Poplar series. He continued to travel to London and Venice, but increasingly focused his attention on Giverny.
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Around 1890, Monet started to work on the series of haystacks oils. Monet oil paintings of the haystacks in bright summer, gray winters, and snow have been highly praised by all. He ... painted a series 18 frontal views of the cathedral at Rouen under different light conditions!
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In the 1880s and 1890s Monet painted a series of paintings of the Rouen Cathedral from different points of view and at different times of the day. Twenty views of the cathedral were exhibited at the Durand-Ruel gallery in 1895. He ... painted series paintings of haystacks.
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