Since much of the country is still knee deep in the heart of winter, it seems appropriate to look at some snow scenes. Maybe there are two ways to look at it – you’re either surrounded by snow and would prefer looking at beach scenes, or you don’t have snow on the ground so a lovely painting of snow looks downright exotic and cozy. Either way, you might recognize some of these paintings, or the names of the artists who painted them. Some are from our own on-line gallery. Just sit back, grab a cup of cocoa, and enjoy the magic of snow!
The Sea of Ice by Caspar David Friedrich (1824) via BBC: German painting’s great romantic, Friedrich here depicts the shipwreck of the HMS Griper, a British vessel on an expedition to the North Pole. The iceberg totally dwarfs the ship; it is a gravestone as much as an obstacle. As so often in Friedrich’s art, nature here is at once sublimely beautiful and totally indifferent to human life.
The Magpie by Claude Monet (1868-69) via BBC: Monet was a master of the winter scene – he painted more than 100 of them, and when Edouard Manet saw the Impressionist’s snowscapes he abandoned any effort to make his own. This is Monet’s largest winter painting, depicting a single black bird on a fence in Etretat – but what’s most thrilling about the work is the shadows on the snow, done not in black but in a convention-shocking blue.
Edvard Munch, “New Snow in the Avenue,” 1906, Munch Museum, © Munch Museum/Munch-EllingsendGroup/DACS 2012
Wassily Kandinsky, “Winter Landscape,” 1909, oil on cardboard, 75.5 x 97.5 cm, The State Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
Ivan Shishkin, “In the Wild North,” 1891, oil on canvas, 161 cm (63.4 in) x118 cm (46.5 in), Museum of Russian Art in Kiev
Snow in Boston by Peter Laughton $485 on Zatista.com
Early Thaw by Anne Lively $270 on Zatista.com
Winter in Germany by Vyusal Rain $1,030 on Zatista.com
“After the Storm” by John Bowdren $510 on Zatista.com
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