Sunset in Venice by Claude Monet

Sunset in Venice by Claude Monet

The painting “Sunset in Venice” by Claude Monet, which was painted in oil in 1908, belongs to the National Museum of Cardiff, the national art gallery of Wales. The original is painted in oil on canvas with a size of 65.2cm x 92.4cm.

The term impression means the process of capturing sensory information using the retina to recognize any object. For example, the eye first sees small black spots before it recognizes them as pedestrians in the distance. When you go out to draw, try to forget that the objects in front of you are a tree, a house, a field, or something else, often explained to Monet by a neighbor in Giverny. I mean only a square of blue, or an oblong pink color, or a strip of yellow, but not an object, although I give it a color corresponding to reality.

This method helps not to create a naive impression of the picture and the scene that it represents. Later he said that he would like to get the experience of a blind person who suddenly gets the opportunity to see everything for the first time. “Sunset in Venice” – a vivid example of the work of the impressionist. The picture “Twilight in Venice”, which was written in the autumn of 1908 in Venice, belongs to the same classification. The painting was created when Monet and his wife Alice were traveling in their own car through Venice. The first time they stayed at the Palazzo Barbaro, and then – at the Hotel Brittany.

It was there that he created this masterpiece. When Monet created this marine scenic landscape, he began to lose his sight because of a cataract. As well as many other artists who were amazed by eye disease, this provoked him to create true masterpieces. Bright blue, yellow and red colors were used by Monet to depict the sunset in Venice. Across the lagoon, we see Venice and the church on the Venetian island.

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