Painter and Painting Servive

We have made important changes to our privacy policy and cookies and would like to inform you what this means for you and your personal information. Snow in world art: ten outstanding works The effects of color and light on snow have fascinated artists for centuries. The BBC Culture columnist offers his rating of works of art that capture the beauty of winter: ten magnificent works created over the past 500 years - from serious, lyrical and soulful to ironic and frivolous like the first snowball. Pieter Bruegel the Elder "Hunters in the Snow" PIETER BRUEGHEL THE ELDER This work of the Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder is the pinnacle of the winter landscape. The artist has to overcome serious difficulties when he takes up the image of snow: he needs to show depth, texture and coldness in order to make the viewer shiver and mumble "brrr". There is nothing festive or idyllic in this work of the Northern Renaissance - neither you a snowman, nor filigree snowflakes. The painting, one of six works from the "Months" or "Seasons" cycle, was commissioned to Bru Painter and Painting Servive egel by the merchant and collector from Antwerp, Nicholas Jongelinck. In the lower left corner we see a group of hunters with dogs, bringing home a meager prey - this is just one rabbit, from which you can hardly make a real Christmas dinner. The sight of the hunters, exhausted and tired, is depressing, but the skaters, merrily sliding on the ice, create a contrast that imperiously attracts the viewer's attention. Unlucky hunters wander hard, leaving deep traces behind them, as a symbol of life's hardships and expectations of winter. Interestingly, the most recognizable winter snow scene in art history is so melancholy. But there is an artistic and everyday truth in this. Winter brings with it a biting frost, and no one likes cold. (1565, wood, oil, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna - Ed.) Katsushika Hokusai "Tea house on the Koishikawa River. Morning after a snowfall" Admiring nature is a generic feature of Japanese art, and this landscape by Hokusai is a clear evidence of this. Paintings and prints reflecting seasonal transformations taking place in the same place are a distinctive feature of the Japanese art school. https://jiji.co.ke/nairobi-central/building-and-trades-services/painter-and-painting-servive-a4wYqSa5H77P8XOjyi63SWrs.html