Impressionists were sensitive to the slightest changes of weather. Working in nature, they wanted to create an integral landscape image, where a motif, colors, and light would form a unified poetic impression of a city or a countryside view. In the 1880s, Monet started to work on paintings where the motif was not as central, but the main goal was to capture the quickly changing nuances of light. In his painting “Haystack at Giverny, " Monet managed to convey the power of light quite convincingly. The artist depicts a green meadow with a haystack in pink and lilac colors, with slender poplar trees in the background. Monet’s color combinations and their harmony create an illusion of sunshine covering the meadow. This effect is achieved first of all through the contrast between the lilac and violet shadows on the grass and haystack and the light green band in the background that turns the painting into a genuine anthem to the sun. The artist’s light and volant brush touches the canvas in such a way that lets us feel the vibration of the hay cloaked in shadow, the trembling of leaves on the poplar trees, and the swish of the mowed grass.