
A full moon breaks through the clouds and lays a path of greenish light across the river Dnieper, above dark banks and a sky that fills most of the canvas. Arkhip Kuindzhi showed it alone in a darkened hall in Saint Petersburg, lit by a single lamp, and crowds queued to see it. Some visitors looked for a light hidden behind the canvas.
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The horizon sits very low, and the only bright notes are the moon and its reflection. Everything else is built from dark, closely related tones.
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