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Debate:Where do you personally look for facts and information on topics "When did Brahms live" or "Why did Monet paint grainstacks?" (view source)
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P. S. Johannes Brahms (no Conservapedia entry), Birth: May 7, 1833 in Hamburg, Germany Death: April 3, 1897 Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale Research, 1998. Obtained online courtesy of my public library.
P. S. Johannes Brahms (no Conservapedia entry), Birth: May 7, 1833 in Hamburg, Germany Death: April 3, 1897 Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale Research, 1998. Obtained online courtesy of my public library.
P. P. S. Google search on [http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=%22claude+monet%22+grainstacks+symbol&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 "claude monet" grainstacks symbol], where I included the word "symbol" in hopes of narrowing the search to entries that would tell me ''why'' he painted them. Neither Wikipedia nor Conservapedia in first hundred hits. Top hit, no good; second hit, [http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=34078 MFA Boston] turns up a lovely image of a Monet grainstack with the explanation:
:In 1890 and 1891, Monet painted a group of pictures of the stacks of wheat in the fields near his home, exhibiting them as a series to great critical acclaim in 1891. Traditionally, the motifs in Monet's series paintings have been seen merely as vehicles through which he could explore the interaction of light, color, and form over the course of the day and in different weather conditions. But scholars have recently proposed that Monet was equally interested in the meaning and significance of the motifs themselves. Grainstacks, for example, are traditional symbols of the land's fertility, the local farmers' material wealth, and the region's prosperity.
Similar search using "haystacks" instead of "grainstacks" yields similar results. Wikipedia article says he painted haystacks but gives no further information. Conservapedia does not mention any Monet subjects except waterlilies. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 09:22, 8 April 2007 (EDT)