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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;say_it_slowly, post: 128303, member: 50&quot;]No idea but I did find this.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Monet visited several times between 1883 and 1886, most productively in the fall and winter of 1885-86, when he managed to produce some 75 paintings. This show has four, three of them of The Manneporte. In his paintings the limestone is not white, but comprised of heavy dots of orange, yellow, blue, gray and peach. Some artists in this show paint The Manneporte from a distance, or use it as a backdrop for objects or people on a foreground beach. Not Monet; he got up close and personal, hiking right up to the bottom of the arch through a cliff tunnel at low tide with a gaggle of local kids in tow lugging his half-dozen unfinished canvasses. Maupassant wrote this description of Monet’s process: <span style="color: #8000ff"><i>all the canvasses showed “the same subject at different times of the day and with different effects. He picked them up and put them aside by turns according to changes in the sky and shadows.”</i></span> He then would finish the paintings in his studio, where his imagination could take over, producing the colorful, brilliant paintings we see in this show.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.newmainetimes.org/articles/2012/07/11/dilettante-normandy-coast-portland-museum-art/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.newmainetimes.org/articles/2012/07/11/dilettante-normandy-coast-portland-museum-art/" rel="nofollow">http://www.newmainetimes.org/articles/2012/07/11/dilettante-normandy-coast-portland-museum-art/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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