Friday, March 16, 2018

A certain slant of light …

… Winter’s Immutable Poetics | Review 31. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The only artist who ever painted that certain slant of winter light with such immaculate verisimilitude as Monet was Brueghel. His 1565 Netherlandish painting The Hunters in the Snow encapsulates the very feel of winter, when fingers grow numb and lungs are pained from the cold.

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