I
prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the
landscape — the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something
waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show. ~Andrew Wyeth
This may just be my Winter Etching for 2015. It is a branch from my trumpet vine that somehow escaped being tied up this past fall. I love the simple and elegant calligraphic quality of it.
Andrew Wyeth understood the bleak beauty of winter and many of his paintings hinted at the Chinese aesthetic of large areas of "empty" space. Of course, it is far from empty but it does give the eye a place to rest.
The Chinese were also the masters of the single gestural stoke. They said so much with so little. This photograph may not be an etching exactly but it has that radical simplicity that I love so much in Chinese brush painting so I might just bend the rules a bit.
The Chinese were also the masters of the single gestural stoke. They said so much with so little. This photograph may not be an etching exactly but it has that radical simplicity that I love so much in Chinese brush painting so I might just bend the rules a bit.
Winter in Maine is the perfect time to embrace the bones of the landscape. This stark simplicity will not be here come spring when a whole new aesthetic will be present. Time to celebrate this season of whiteness...
6 comments:
Simply Beautiful!
just lovely.
Thank you! I'd been seeing this for months but until the snow came it didn't stand out for me.
Thank you Sue! I think "simply" is the operative word here.
I love how you compare it to Chinese Calligraphy... I see it too... And love the simplicity of it as well...
And in my own crazy imagination :) I see almost like an artist's sketch of a profile of a face of some kind of animal with a snout, emerging from the larger line; the shadow of the snow behind it making an eye, and the "snout" lower down, after that small straight line... LOL Maybe I project too much onto it, but it's fun to see what emerges. :)
Oh, I see it now! I think it is fun to read into an image like this...sort of like those ink blot tests! Thank you for pointing it out.
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