William Wilson Corcoran Gallery - north wall - third view

 

Impressionists often used pure, unmixed colors and placed them side by side on the canvas. This technique, known as optical mixing, creates a vibrant, luminous effect as the colors blend in the viewer's eye.

 

(above: Edward Henry Potthast, Happy Days, c.1910-20, oil on panel, courtesy of the Taubman Museum of Art. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

Let's now go past that wide hallway

Glide Path

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