(12) Landscapes

 

It's a new year, so time for change, and since there is snow on Berlin's streets, we don't want to look at Paris' snow on the loo any longer. 

I do like looking at landscapes cause they draw you in and make your thoughts drift along nicely. Here we have above Jean Baptiste Camille COROT (1796- 1875) with his "White Route"- Saintry pres de Corbeil from 1873. It is absolutely adorable because of the mood it conveys. So tranquil, so innocent. Probably early spring. And if you look closely you see a man in the bushes probably peeing, in the distance some white house, and may be it's the white route because of the light sandy path. He painted this at age 77, not bad, ey?

But Albrecht DÜRER (1471- 1528) and his villages in "Drahtziehmühle nahe Nürnberg", a water color from 1494 !!! is just as adorable. So fine and here too conveying such a lovely tranquil mood.

Imagine, Corot painted his landscape almost 300 years after Dürer held his brush!

How both paintings lure you into the distances is just fantastic. When I try to paint distance it looks nothing like it, pathetic and childish. It looks easy, but try it at home. Sure the foreground has to be bigger than the objects in the back, which on a piece of paper is simply the upper portion. Anyway, I probably love these art works because of the silence it conveys, and living in Berlin in the 21st century, we rarely experience silence anymore....