The Grand Canal, Venice

Title

The Grand Canal, Venice

Artist

Eric Glaser

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

Description

"Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice"

Artist: Paul Victor Jules Signac (French, 1863-1935)

Title: Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice

Object Type: Painting

Date: 1905

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: Height: 73.5 cm (28.9 in); Width: 92.1 cm (36.2 in)

Collection: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH USA

Painting History: purchased by Toledo Museum of Art
with funds from the Libbey Endowment, given by Edward Drummond Libbey

Current Location: Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 35

Label Text:

It may immediately strike you that the style of this painting is different from any other in this gallery (with the exception of Henri Edmond Cross’s At the Fair). Compare it to a nearby Impressionist painting by Pissarro or Monet, and the difference becomes even clearer. Though often using fragmented brushstrokes, the Impressionists blended their colors on the canvas. Paul Signac and other Neo-Impressionists like Georges Seurat and Cross sought a more scientific process based on color theory and optics. They treated color as light, placing dots or strokes of pure pigment side by side so that the eye would “mix” them when the canvas was viewed from a distance.

While Seurat applied paint in dots (points in French)—leading to the term pointillism to describe the technique—his admirer Signac came to favor longer dashes that resemble the individual stones of a mosaic. Signac was, in fact, influenced by the Byzantine mosaics he had admired on trips to Istanbul and Venice.

Text Credit: Toledo Museum of Art

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Additional image editing by Eric Glaser

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