Rather than select a single painting, I chose to focus on a series of paintings by Claude Monet. I am drawn to his work, and I was having a difficult time choosing one painting to discuss content, so I opted for one of his series of painting. The title Haystack Series refers primarily to twenty-five canvas paintings in his Impressionistic style. The images depicted in these painting are of haystacks, large piles of hay, shaped with a conical top, and typically left out in fields. The shape protected the innermost hay from the elements. Monet could see haystacks from the door of his home in Giverny, and as such, began painting them in his series style. Although the paintings may look like nothing but a simple haystack, that haystack is representative of many things. Just the visual represents the beauty of the French countryside, but there is a deeper meaning to each haystack. The haystacks emphasize the prosperity of that region of France. There in Normandy, France, small farms and villages needed that hay to survive. Farmers harvested it up into late July, but it sat, stored in those haystacks, sometimes until March when the threshing machine arrived at that village or farm. Because this is a series of paintings, I cannot leave out what I feel is the most important part of the content—the light. Monet was known for his depiction of light through colors and brush strokes, and the Haystacks Series is no different. This series features the main subject in different seasons, different types of weather, and different times of day. These nuances include, but are not limited to, sunrise, sunset, snow, frost, and fog. This series, to me, truly highlights his fascination with light, color, and the relationship between the two.