Grand Canal Venice

The Grand Canal of Venice opens out beneath domes and palaces, gondolas gliding over water that shatters the light into a brilliant mosaic of pink, blue, and gold dabs. Paul Signac, the great Neo-Impressionist traveler, brought his divisionist technique to the city's famous light and shimmering reflections. Now in Toledo, Ohio, Grand Canal, Venice turns the much-painted view into a dazzling tapestry of separate colored touches - the architecture and water dissolved into pure radiance, the systematic dot method used to capture the unique, glittering atmosphere of the lagoon city.