[Haiku Guy]

One of the highlights of the Chicago Institute of Art is the room where they have 6 or 8 of these haystack paintings, each painted with a different quality of light. They really are extraordinary.

I can’t see the value in having just one of them, though. The beauty comes in comparing one to another, and seeing the artist’s rendition of the different conditions on the different paintings.

If these paintings are worth that much, that is one expensive room in Chicago! Well worth the visit.

[Psalm 73]

"One of the highlights of the Chicago Institute of Art is the room where they have 6 or 8 of these haystack paintings..."

Years ago went to see a great Monet showing at the Met Museum of Art (NYC) and they had three or four of them side-by-side.
Van Gogh challenges me, but Monet relaxes me. Mmmmmm

[caver]

To each his own.

I like to look at them but have a hard time seeing their worth much money.

[vetvetdoug]

The Mellon Exhibit is making a tour of the US with many impressionistic paintings by Van Gogh, Degas, Monet, Manet, and Pissaro to just name a few. It just left Nashville and is going to be setting up in OKC this month. Extraordinary is the term to describe the paintings for sure.