Artist: Adam Hilary Bernard Chmielowski
Date: 1880
Museum: National Museum in Kraków (Kraków, Poland)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
Italian Cemetery at Dusk and At Dusk employ the same motif – an urban necropolis with gravestones and grand tombs showing white among trees and bushes in the dark of twilight. The paintings differ in perspective and intensity of light. In other words, the artist selected two moments of dusk trying to capture and convey the gradual disappearance of light and the accompanying visual effects – shapes and colours being engulfed by the deepening darkness. In the first picture, the setting sun is visible as a blood-red glow in the sky, creating strong colour contrasts and providing a disturbing background to the stillness and silence of the city of the dead. The mood has faded away in the second work. The scene is shrouded in delicate, opalescent dimness of the ending day, suffused with a faint gleam of sunlight. The artist has added a touch of colour for contrast – the figure of a sitting man in a purplish red mantle. Luminous and colour effects of this kind aroused the interest of painters of the Munich art circle from the early 1870s, including many Poles who studied there, among others, brothers Maksymilian and Aleksander Gierymski, Józef Brandt, Józef Chełmoński and Adam Chmielowski. They developed a type of mood picture referred to as
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