![]() ![]() This masterpiece is currently on display at the Bridgestone Museum of Art in Tokyo, Japan. They stayed first at the Palazzo Barbaro and later at the Hotel Brittania. Twilight, Venice, aka Dusk, aka Church of San Giorgio Maggiore by twighlight, aka Crepuscule a Venise, was painted in the autumn of 1908 in Venice where Monet and his wife Alice had traveled by their own chauffeur-driven car. Twilight, Venice is a prime example from this impressionist. He later claimed that he wished he might share the experience of a blind person suddenly granted the power of sight. ”When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you, a tree, a house, a field or whatever” Monet explained to a neighbor in Giverny, “merely think here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own naïve impression of the scene before you”. For example, the eye sees tiny black spots before it recognizes them as faraway pedestrians. The term “impression” signifies the sensory information registered on the retina prior to any recognition of the object.
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