I walked in to the Harn museum and went straight to the Monet, the same way I have always done since the museum got the painting. I sat on the bench and absorb the beauty of the painting. Claude Monet’s “Champ d’Avoine” is in it’s own exhibit. It was finished in 1890 by Monet and is now on display as a permanent feature in the Harn. It is a jubilee of subdued color. The blue, green, yellow, pink, and salmon mix together in a way that, there is no two exactly alike colors in painting. The massive tree, which takes up the corner, is a surprising mixture of green, blue, and maroon, which gives a shade like feel. The background trees are lighter hues of blue, pink, and green, which let you know that it is spring. The painting is oil on canvas and still looks wet. The title “Champ d’Avoine” means Oat (Field) and it says so on the information piece by the paining. The sky of the painting is the right shades of white and blue that gives it a serene, cloudless feel. The best place to view it

I choose two very different paintings for some very different reasons. The Monet has been a favorite of mine since it first came to our little museum. I have been going to the Harn for as long as I can remember. My grandfather would take me there when I was very small and show me all the pretty artwork, he was amazing, it opened my eyes as a child to a whole new perspective on life, someone else’s. I was amazed when I heard that we would be getting a Monet so the first chance I got I went to see it, I must have sat in front of it for hours. The painting reminds me my great grandfather’s farm in Mississippi. He has a field a lot like the one in the painting. I can see myself running through it. I like the way that the painting is best viewed from a distance. The farther you get the better it looks. When you get really close to it the image changes some how and it starts to look like a jumbled mess. The colors run together and there seems to be no form. However, from a distance, like the bench in front, the image of the swaying oat and the welcoming shade tree becomes apparent. That is why I love it and sit in front of it like I am seeing it for the first time, every time I see it. I think that the painting was a very important contribution to Gainesville and we are very lucky to have such a masterpiece.

“The Arrest” was an interesting painting the artist is Leon Golub. I am not sure when the work was completed, and the median is acrylic on linen. It is in an exhibit entitled “The Culture of Violence. The painting gives off a d

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Culture Violence, Claude Monet’s, Oat Field, , Leon Golub, “the arrest”, bench front, feel sorry, pants looks, painting looks, front painting, “champ d’avoine”,