Our timeless fascination with sunsets and sunrises
How these light spectacles make us feel in awe
Sunsets are phenomenal. They captivate us beyond time. They provide us with breathtaking, end-of-day spectacles unparalleled in their beauty and rapture.
A sunset happens for the duration of the time when the sun disappears below the horizon due to Earth’s rotation. The sun rays change their colors from the day’s light yellow to dark yellow to orange to red as the sun disappears.
Light particles are the same size as particles in our atmosphere. The atmospheric particles scatter the light particles, based on the wavelengths of the colors. Colors with the highest wavelength, red, orange, and dark yellow, reach our eyes, while light yellow colors scatter and disappear, as their wavelengths are shorter, and are not reaching our eyes any longer.
The sunset appears as a symphony of yellow, orange, pink, red, and vermilion hues.
The sunset’s call to the artists
Monet’s masterful obsession with sunsets
Monet was captivated by sunset all his life. Many of his paintings reflect a palette that is reminiscent of the sun’s setting hues and tints.
