Today's episode takes us to the Minneapolis Institute of Art for a long look at Claude Monet.
We'll find out how the morning light on a neighbor's haystacks inspired one of his most famous painting series and the hectic practice he developed to paint them!
"A Long Look" theme is "Ascension" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo
Episode theme is "Sonatine - I. Modéré" by Maurice Ravel. Performed by Markus Staab. Courtesy of musopen.org https://musopen.org/music/4724-sonatine/
Haystacks (Monet series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haystacks_(Monet_series)
Monet info
Perry, Lilla Cabot. "Reminiscences Of Claude Monet From 1889 To 1909." The American Magazine of Art 18, no. 3 (1927): 119-26. Accessed May 12, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23931183.
Exploring Late Monet with Art Historian Kathryn Calley Galitz, Pac Pobric, Editor, Digital Department, 2018 https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/collection-insights/2018/monet-conversation
