Lecturer talking about how maybe Zorn didn't "see or experience many colours" because he was nordic and it makes me want to smack him over the head with a painting by a Skagen's painter - no one huge, just Krøyer
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Not a very well thought out statement 😆
Please don’t tell me that the lecturer was a local as well?
And he was a USian - teaching realist painting of all things
Bold to show up in Scandinavia and tell Scandinavians about what their own environment does and doesn’t have 😂
People even famously travelled back in those days, just to see how different the light was here.
YEAH! Skagen has The Best lighting - even today :D
He's one of my favorites from art history :D
Because of the tiles?
Guess you must've stolen the colour from the greeks
besides, the argument was about whether or not someone in the far north would have been EXPOSED to colour. winter in cities can be drab but colour still EXISTS lmao
Also I think grey and dirty is mostly a result of modern cities, no? Trees getting cut down, concrete architecture etc
And as you just illustrated clearly we have the superior colours up here xD
Why else would people stick around for thousands of years in places that are full of ice and wolves and rocks and volcanoes?
It's the sky and the light
winnipeg skies are stunningly gorgeous too! they just don’t have the same MAJESTY. i miss the aurora!
We get traces of sun storms up here and midnight sun! One could argue, we get the purest light and the best colours as a result, and yet--!!
dafuq is that logic? D:
i learned that in kindergarden... did they not?
(also some nordic artists created some of the most "playfully bright" stuff i've ever seen/heard/read? Like... i thought that was consensus?)
And yup! That's definitely a thing ! The Skagen Painters were especially big on colours!!
(That depiction was poetically worded btw! THanks for making my day)
There are some insane russian painters with the coolest, most vibrant colours!!
...and anyway the impressionists loved snow for a reason 😤
You'd think a painter would have an appreciation for that type of contrast
Summers are the best
The nordics are full of colour
We get a lot of pollution in autumb, winter and early spring in Denmark (because we live in a hole), so when we DO get the sunsets and sunrises they're always gorgeous :D
Wondering if that's contrast, or if they're usually always like that (probably the latter)
Idk I don't think he thought it through xD
But now I've calmed down it sort of has the same vibe as southerners finding out the sun is out all night during the summer