The Wheat Field by Claude Monet

The Wheat Field - Claude Monet - Impressionist Oil Painting

At a Glance

Nothing softens a hallway like a painted surface. The Wheat Field by Claude Monet arrives as a hand painted oil painting on canvas, offering the landscape detail, soft gradients, and tactile finish that landscape oil painting shoppers look for.

About the Artwork

1881
65.5 x 81.5 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, United States.

Monet spent nearly three years painting within about two kilometres of Vétheuil. The growing abstraction of his style can be seen in the Wheat field of 1881 where the landscape is reduced essentially to three colour scales: reddish-gold, blue and green. The red-gold runs as a flat band right across the painting, but curves forward in a narrow channel and is scattered over the surface of the saturated greens which form another horizontal band. This meadow is articulated with long curving strokes of blue-green which are also used to create the trees and wonderful misty distances. Monet flattens the space and avoids illusionistic effects (for example, the path does not 'look like' a path; we know it to be a path through intuitive identification of shape, colour and location). One could compare this way of depicting space, by overlapping bands and linking curves and echoes of colour, with the landscapes of Hiroshige and Hokusai (see the latter’s Shichirigahama in Sagami Province). The Wheat field was painted in the summer after Monet began working on the Norman coast. It suggests that his intense concentration on the groundedness of the meadows around the Seine was the necessary counterpoint to his imaginative grasp of vast heights and huge expanses of water in his paintings of cliff and sea.

The landscape subject is rebuilt stroke by stroke in oil, giving the finished canvas the depth expected of impressionist oil painting wall decor.

Materials & Craftsmanship

Oil on canvas remains the reference standard for impressionist reproductions. Our artists apply pigment by hand, blending the landscape tones directly on the surface for depth that a printed landscape oil painting simply cannot match.

What Is Included

• Painted entirely by hand in oils on artist-grade canvas, with no giclée or inkjet process involved.
• Supplied with a 2-inch blank border on all four sides for flexible hallway display options.
• We dispatch worldwide ourselves, so there are no middlemen in the chain.
• Available canvas sizes for this hand painted oil painting: 20 X 24 in, 24 X 36 in, 30 X 40 in, 36 X 48 in, 48 X 72 in.
• Choose from standard sizes or request a custom dimension to fit your wall.
• Multiple low-cost carriers available, including DHL, UPS, FedEx and USPS.
• Free canvas stretching on wooden stretcher bars; custom framing available on request.
• Before dispatch we email a digital proof so you can approve the finished canvas.

Where to Hang It

impressionist canvas wall art is one of the easiest ways to warm a hallway. Pair this piece with natural linen, dark wood, or brushed brass, and let the hand painted surface do the rest.

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