of the stacks. They provide themselves with enough magnitude to hold themselves against the larger figures. There is an enormous difference between Monets depiction of farm living and the work the farmers did, and the Realists depiction how life was. Monet gave a picture of hard-working people, who tended to their land with great detail and hard work. The Realists on the other hand had a tendency to make life appear a little better than what it really was. The Grainstack (Sunset) is a highly geometric painting. The grainstack has a conical top and the bottom that supports it is a parallelogram. Many of the objects in the painting run parallel with the rest of the painting. The horizon where the sun is setting runs parallel with the mountain or hilly area in the background of the painting. The farmhouses also run parallel with this, but also with the center of the grainstack, and the fields below it. The farmhouses roofs all run diagonally with each other as well as with the roof of the stack (Hayes Tucker, Monet in the 90s, pg. 77). Each item of the painting has something that it relates to in a geometrical way. Even though the shapes may see uniform in description, the grainstacks and farmhouse have their own identities. When looking at several grainstacks each one has its own individual characteristics. Physically some of them may be smaller with larger conical tops, or exactly the opposite. Nature also plays a role in their particular appearance. Some of the grainstacks are covered in snow, are shown at sunrise, or they have a combination of effects. Monet had an ability to make them stand out from each other and make them extremely different.When the viewer is looking at the painting, there are a few details that draw you into the painting. First, is the low view point of the painting. As a person stands viewing the painting they are lower than everything in it. It appears that the grainstack is on a bit of an incline, and the...
