Eye Candy for Today: Frits Thaulow’s Winter

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4 responses to “Eye Candy for Today: Frits Thaulow’s Winter”

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   James Gurney

   December 21, 2017

   Quite a revelation to see how much dry work he used.
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      Charley Parker

      December 22, 2017

      Thanks, James. Yes, it’s interesting. I’m not sure how representative this is, I know of few other images of Thaulow’s paintings on the web at this level of detail, they don’t show as much of this kind of texture. Here’s the one I know of that’s closest in subject and detail: http://www.sothebys.com/content/dam/stb/lots/L12/L12101/630L12101_6G4PX.jpg
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   ælle

   December 23, 2017

   The painting of winter landscapes had a breakthrough with naturalism at the end of the 1870s.
   After central heating was invented perhaps?
   Never heard of Thaulow before. Those wintery landscapes in reality have become very rare nowadays.
   It is Eye Candy for sure, thank you.
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      Charley Parker

      December 25, 2017

      Thanks, ælle. It may have had more to do with the same advances in painting materials (easily transportable tin tubes for paint and “French” easels) that fueled the advance of plein air painting in France and elsewhere. Check out my links to Thaulow’s other works; particularly his wonderful handling of small streams.