Behind the noisy carnival, full of colors, dances and songs, the master saw a kind of emptiness and sadness. It is only necessary to throw a fleeting glance at the picture, as it becomes clear that none of those depicted on the canvas does not smile. The city playing the role of the background, as a cumbersome decoration, preventing the actors from playing.
The color scale is heavy and bleak. The spectator feels like a heat that slows down the festive performance. Participants seem to perform hard work, which they can not refuse. The master painted the picture not from nature, but from memory, using photographs. Hence the extreme accuracy in the image of the “bridge of sighs,” such accuracy is uncharacteristic for master painting. It makes the background even more lifeless and dry.
Coloring the picture at first glance is illogical. Some colors look “random”, breaking the harmony of the color range. In fact, this approach in selecting colors only reinforces the impression of a heavy and quite unhappy atmosphere of carnival.
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