Monet's "Palazzo da Mula, Venice"

As I stared at the painting "Palazzo da Mula, Venice" by Monet, the images were extremely blurry to me and the picture was somewhat indistinguishable. I really wasn't even sure what it was I was looking at. All of the images seemed to blend into each other making the picture seem almost as if the artist merely took his brush and stroked it across the canvas in a series of several colors and directions, almost …

…visual impression of the subject instead of the permanent aspects of it. The focus of impressionistic landscapists was to finish the painting as soon as possible, before the possible changes of the lighting caused a difference in the picture. Impressionism also used complimenting colors to depict the shadows rather than using gray or black. The paintings were comprised more so of the light and atmosphere and caused the objects within the paintings to lose prominence.