san giorgio maggiore at dusk claude monet

san giorgio maggiore at dusk claude monetThe tones are warm. This impressionnist painting was done during Claude Monet's visit to Venice in the fall of 1908, depicting the island of San Giorgio Maggiore and its monastery drowned in mist. The artist focused on capturing the moment, with sunlight effects, and on the overall visual effect, rather than on the details. Interestingly, he began to lose his sight (carate) during this period. Monet constructed textures using small touches of light

Gustav Klimt's Water Serpents II plunges us into an underwater world populated by mythical and mysterious creatures

depicts a nighttime city scene featuring a lighted corner drugstore

here he uses a composition in complementary colors

while the smaller

created by the circular shapes and chromatic relationships

yellow and red crisscrossing the entire surface magnifies the "new energy" of America

Silent is an emblematic work from Kandinsky's late period

delimited by flat areas of primary colors that cut the background

wearing a human face

the cliff overhangs the sea

This painting by Delacroix shows three beautiful young women sitting on carpets

characteristic of Klimt's style