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February 28, 2008 at 6:56 pm | Posted in pictures | 10 Comments
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You know, my dear, looking out from the balcony over the roughpebbled beach to the grey Northern winter, European landscape painters squabbled for decades about why they couldn’t paint landscapes that looked like Australia while selling their secondrate paintings back here in England at exhorbitant prices to the ill informed, then came a generation of Impressionists, he said turning to her like sunonhead looking for a quick smile, who realised a different quality of light,

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Charles Condor, ‘Herricks blossoms’ 1889
For more about Australian Impressionist painting here is an excellent resource. National Gallery of Victoria, Australian Impressionism.

Comment by Paul— February 28, 2008 #
… hues that defy the reflections in the North and instead create the converse, the pink to our blue in the subtlest, slightest pinpricks of shade. You know, to highlight black, one must use blue. If you look too closely, it would drive a man insane. Wondrousness of left to right, North to South, a compliment indeed.

Comment by Narnie— February 28, 2008 #
nice work–I know very little about this– but see a poem in side.

Comment by Scot— February 28, 2008 #
Beautiful painting, peace. When I think of Australian light, it would be very hard to capture that unless you lived with it, your idea of light shaped by living with it. And it is no surprise you love the impressionists, your writing has similar qualities, breaks the rules to produce something more beautiful than the thing itself.

Comment by johemmant— February 28, 2008 #
the problem is, light in the southern hemisphere operates opposite of light in the northern hemisphere. kinda like cyclonic rotations and such.
makes sense to me

Comment by ozymandiaz— February 28, 2008 #
brilliant! BTW, FYI, I’m BACK!

Comment by Sumedh— February 29, 2008 #
not only how you see/perceive the world but how you communicate back what you see can make all the difference. step, step, step outside the box! Nicely done Gingadude.

Comment by lakota— February 29, 2008 #
it reminds me a bit of the paintings Monet did when he was loosing his sight…..love the softness, with just a hint of bleak.

Comment by enigma— February 29, 2008 #
The Australian sky really is some kind of sky – beautiful and merciless at the same time. Check out Streeton’s Golden Summer for an example. Great writing BTW.

Comment by Oscarandre— March 5, 2008 #
“Beautiful and merciless..” perfect. I looked at Streeton and others for this piece, but this Condor just had some tiny touches I couldn’t resist.

Comment by Paul— March 5, 2008 #