겨울 Winter Artworks

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영국 가디언(The Guardian)을 보다가, 죠나단 존스(Jonathan Jones)의 "My Favorite Winter Artworks" 란 연재물을 보았습니다. 그가 소개한 작품과 제가 가지고 있던 이미지를 추가해 소개합니다.

Grotto in an Iceberg (Herbert Ponting) 

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Winter Landscape (Casper David Friedrich)

Hunters in the snow (Pieter Bruegel), 1565  

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Sledding (Zatzka Hans)

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Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch (Henry Raeburn)

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Winter Day (Hans Dahl) 

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The Four Times of Day: Morning (William Hogarth), 1736 portrait of London life

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Venus Frigida (Rubens)

Venus is a Mediterranean goddess. Her enchanted home is the isle of Cyprus. In Botticelli’s painting The Birth of Venus she skims over the warm green sea on a shell. This classical deity personifies not only Love, but Love in a warm climate, with grapes, wine and nudity.

So what happens when she travels north? Rubens portrays her shivering with cold in a glowering landscape, her nudity exposed to the wintry north. His painting illustrates a classical adage that says: ‘Without Bacchus and Ceres, Venus freezes.’ Love in winter, in other words, needs good food, good booze and a cosy bedroom

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The birth of Jesus (Peiro della Francesca), 1470s

This is one of the most beautiful nativity scenes ever painted. Even though it was left unfinished, it has an invincible calm authority. Piero has set the Christmas story in the Tuscany of his own time – this was painted in the 1470s – with a town that resembles his own, Borgo San Sepolcro, and rocks and water that evoke the landscapes of the river Arno.

Most moving is the stable, a rough creation of grey stone, a decayed ruin on the outskirts of town. But when you look at the choir of angels, realism ends. Their limbs are rounded like the geometrical shapes Piero studied as a noted mathematician. The harmonies of their forms make you hear the perfect note they sound. Everything from the crystal sky to the prayer of the virgin adds to the sense of revelation.