Word: shimmering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pageant of moving light and air. Going out at dawn into a field near his Normandy home, he would paint a swift " impression" of its row of little haystacks under the light of early morning. Another day, he would paint the same stacks, through the heat-shimmer of high Normandy noon. Then he mould paint them at dusk, or half-hidden with rain, coated with snow, or red with the sunset. The musical expression, " Air, with variations," is true in many senses of Monet's greatest work. The famous series are exquisite color harmonies, -blurred if the observer stands...