These days, we all take oodles of photos. Research has indicated that 99.88% of these are a waste of pixels, but they give us pleasure, so hey! Why not? Every now and then I take a photo on my phone that reminds me of some painting or other.
When I was a young lad, we used to get a decent sized framed print of a ‘great master’ painting delivered every few weeks to our primary school classroom by a van from Plymouth City Museum – over a term we’d see maybe half a dozen such works. Proof of the cultural enrichment this afforded me is the fact that I still recognise some of these when they turn up on University Challenge as part of a ‘picture bonus’ round of questions. No doubt the impoverishment of our local authorities has long since seen this service to our youth withdrawn.
Anyway, just yesterday I snapped a scene that immediately made me think of a work by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the marvellous ‘The Hunters In The Snow’. My photo is in the comments.
Have you taken a snap that brings a classic painting to mind?
Hunters in the Snow, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 16th century.
The Russells In The Snow
Not sure if this reminds me of a classic painting but I rather like it.
If you hadn’t described it, I was thinking silver birch trees. Daniel Campbell is great!
https://allartdirect.co.uk/silver-birches-in-winter-by-daniel-campbell-large/
This could do. If you take the train to Manningtree on the Essex/Suffolk border there is a lovely walk through Constable country – Crouch Vale along the River Stour – to Dedham via Faltford Mill/Willy Lott’s Cottage and so on. The irony is that Constable painted the scenes partly to preserve a vanishing landscape, but such was the popularity of the paintings that the scenes are pretty much unchanged. This is Flatford Mill, site of the Hay Wain, and Willy Lott’s Cottage at the end of August.
I have trouble with Imgur but these two from Twitter are my favourites…
He’s very noble…
Another one for the stamps!
I always liked this, which could have been a French landscape by Corot.
Seems like a painting to me. Down by the river at the back of our street some years ago.
Dalarna i sin vinterskrud!
The field behind my house:
Famous painting by Monet:
You should see our lily pond.
Little Tibet, northern India.
Taken yesterday in Amsterdam reminiscent of Rembrandt.
Or this.
Dutch interior with fez?
Gad, what a noble portrait. Should be on the stamps.
I took this out of our living room window back in March in a brief moment between cloudbursts. Definite painterly vibe, confirmed by a friend who said it looked exactly like something her dad – who was an actual artist – would have painted.
Your handbrake must be fucked
Reminds me of a video I once saw.
Sometimes I think I come here rather than going to a priest.
Don’t live there now, thankfully – it was a rental. Bin day was a torment because the trucks refused to come up or down the hill.