Beautiful. I'm also glad Monet didn't drop out of art, form a National Socialist Party and proceed to stomp across all of Europe. Like some people...
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Seeing a Monet reminds me of this scene in Dr. Who where Van Gogh stops to look at a Monet water lilies painting. It's a nice touch because he was very much influenced by Monet's work. And I only now learned that it was made 15 years after Van Gogh took his own life, so he wouldn't have seen it before.
Snow is not well expressed in literal styles; only really works expressionist.
It has a bit in common with faces, in that so much of what we seen in virgin snow is a mirror to our feels.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/6fe55111-00b8-4450-ad6c-3a47e0cb6751.webp
Well i can't not mention this here.
Mmmmmmm snow is very much a thing of record, a thing that cannot be touched without revealing some shit, but the character of fresh and worn snow and what it reflects is very different.
That is a great observation. You must leave a literal and metaphorical footstep there. So is not the case for other landscapes.
It's inherently hiding what is under it, just as rain reveals what was hidden.
Easy to lend itself to the psyche and creating internal art using the external.