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Billowing clouds sweep across the sky in Jan van Goyen’s engaging portrayal of the lively waterways near Dordrecht. While sailboats and dinghies filled with men and women come and go, the most active elements of the painting are the shifting patterns of light and shade passing over this watery domain.
Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, catalogue without checklist. 2018 Water, Wind
Great art shifts your way of seeing the world. When her sister was dying, composer Kamala Sankaram was drawn to the intensity of Mark Rothko’s painting.
And he has this whole fleet of ships, and none of them can sail—there’s no wind.
The river continues to wind into the deep distance, where towns nestle along the
How artists based in Iowa, from the early 20th century to today, have crafted their own visions of the region.
They evoke so much at once: a field swaying in the wind, the trickster figure of
Find out where artist the abstract painter was born, went to school, and lived.
And every morning since then, the wind has given me new colors through the windowpanes
Vroom (1566–1640). [6] Whether painting shipwrecks or vessels sailing in a brisk wind
Reinier Nooms, an Amsterdam painter and graphic artist also known as Reinier Zeeman (which means seaman), specialized in maritime subjects. His career coincided with the heyday of Dutch commercial and maritime power in the 17th century, and Amsterdam’s bustling harbor in the IJ estuary provided Nooms with much of his artistic inspiration.
Exhibition History 2018 Water, Wind, and Waves: Marine Paintings from the Dutch
Information on this painting can be found in the Gallery publication American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century , pages 81-87, which is available as a free PDF https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/american-paintings-18th-century.pdf
He looks off to our left almost in profile, and his wavy gray hair is wind tousled
Aert van der Neer possessed a wonderful ability to convey the activities and atmosphere of a calm winter day. Under a light blue sky scattered with clouds, people of all ages skate, push sleds, ride in horse-drawn sleighs, and socialize on a frozen river.
Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, unnumbered catalogue, repro. 2018 Water, Wind
This bold composition reveals the influence of the flat, patterned surfaces, simplified color, and unusual angles of Japanese prints, which enjoyed a huge vogue in Paris in the late 1800s. The dark figure of the man compresses the picture onto the flat plane of the canvas, and the horizon is pushed to the top, collapsing a sense of distance.
The corner of the boat’s sail, also painted pale green, is pulled taunt by the wind
