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Sep 7, 2020
Media: Mixed Drawing in Sepia & Black Chalk heightened with White on 90-lb., Not, Turners Blue-grey Watercolour Paper from Ruscombe Mill
Size: 6x9.25 in
Still in Poldark Country, as we have been since the end of July, and with this work we are now on Bodmin Moor. Here we are looking north from the Logan Stone on Loudon Hill to the southern prow of Roughtor, the Second highest of the two Cornish mountains. Between here and Roughtor, which is about a mile or so away, are to be found many bronze age hut circles, and remains of small field walls, like those to be found on Dartmoor to the east. Thinking of Claude Lorrain, I give the following quote from CLAUDE LORRAIN: PAINTER AND ETCHER by George Grahame, writing at the end of the 19th century: “The eye gradually accustomed to the Claudian world, bewitched by its sunlight and its atmosphere, begins to dwell with pleasure on the ruins and the marble palaces, the wooded hillsides crowned with convenient towers, the meanderings of impossible rivers. You have but to surrender yourself to the charm of this unreal world to lose sight of its unreality and live in it as one lives in a dream ... We are carried far away from this workaday world of ours into an ethereal domain whence all toil, distress, and terror have purposely been banished by the painter. The inhabitants of this ideal world are as gods. Its skies are all but cloudless. All the rough places in it are made smooth. Such is the Claudian landscape, the quintessence of reality distilled in the alembic of a poet’s soul. When at last you close the book and turn from this world of Claude’s to nature, you feel for a moment like a man who steps from a concert-room, where he has been listening to the music of Beethoven and Mozart, into the din and glare of the street.” Looking through the Liber Veritatis or a series of his paintings, we are entering a world that never was ... but I for one would like to visit. Also visit my blog for more: StevenThorJohanneson.blogspot.com Still in Poldark Country, as we have been since the end of July, and with this work we are now on Bodmin Moor. Here we are looking north from the Logan Stone on Loudon Hill to the southern prow of Roughtor, the Second highest of the two Cornish mountains. Between here and Roughtor, which is about a mile or so away, are to be found many bronze age hut circles, and remains of small field walls, like those to be found on Dartmoor to the east. Thinking of Claude Lorrain, I give the following quote from CLAUDE LORRAIN: PAINTER AND ETCHER by George Grahame, writing at the end of the 19th century: “The eye gradually accustomed to the Claudian world, bewitched by its sunlight and its atmosphere, begins to dwell with pleasure on the ruins and the marble palaces, the wooded hillsides crowned with convenient towers, the meanderings of impossible rivers. You have but to surrender yourself to the charm of this unreal world to lose sight of its unreality and live in it as one lives in a dream ... We are carried far away from this workaday world of ours into an ethereal domain whence all toil, distress, and terror have purposely been banished by the painter. The inhabitants of this ideal world are as gods. Its skies are all but cloudless. All the rough places in it are made smooth. Such is the Claudian landscape, the quintessence of reality distilled in the alembic of a poet’s soul. When at last you close the book and turn from this world of Claude’s to nature, you feel for a moment like a man who steps from a concert-room, where he has been listening to the music of Beethoven and Mozart, into the din and glare of the street.” Looking through the Liber Veritatis or a series of his paintings, we are entering a world that never was ... but I for one would like to visit. Also visit my blog for more: StevenThorJohanneson.blogspot.com |
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