Another contemporary painter tackles the theme of snow in this contrasty painting, called “Ten Below”. There’s something so American about the title that you might leap to the conclusion that the artist was from the USA. And you’d be absolutely right. His early years were spent in Spain, however.
Ten Below
He worked as [...]
The symbolist painter and etcher, Richard Müller, has provided the 8th in this series of snow scenes.
It’s a painting of his from the end of the Second World War.
The Dead Hare
The Hare represents Europe, the Jackdaw: Germany and the Magpie is Russia.
The symbolism in the image depends on the audience having knowledge of the contextual [...]
This is number seven in the seasonal series of snow scene themed posts. (Don’t try to say that with a mouthful of crackers.)
The first time I came across the work of Ivan Fedorovitch Choultsé, (1877 - 1932) I couldn’t make up my mind whether he was a colourist genius or an early incarnation of the [...]
We’ve reached #6 in this round-up of seasonal snow scenes and we are still in middle Europe, this time in the company of the genre painter Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski. (1849 - 1915) His genre was definitely horses.
Riding Shotgun
The image below shows why the man on the back of the sledge was carrying a large [...]
This is post #5 in this mini series of Yule snow scenes, and today’s artist is T.F.Simon, a prolific painter and printmaker from Czechoslovakia who lived between 1877 and 1942. Today is the first time I’d ever heard of him! I just stumbled onto a website devoted to him, while looking for somebody [...]
The fourth snow themed painting in this series is by a favourite of mine, the Danish artist Peder Mork Mønsted, who lived a long and fruitful life as a painter from 1859 to 1941.
This canvas dates from 1918, and goes to show that a snow scene does not necessarily have to be rendered in blues. [...]
The work of Rowland Hilder (1905 - 1993) is held up for your admiration in this snow scene, #3 in the advent series.
The painting is from an advertisement for beer, and it’s titled ” Whitbread Stout at the Cross Keys Inn”
Please click the thumbnail to see a bigger version.
I swiped this mini-bio from the Kings [...]
Here’s #2 in this series of snow scenes in the run up to Christmas. It’s by Rockwell Kent, and he painted it in March 1933 in Greenland.
March, Greenland 1933
Some lovely temperature contrasts at work here.
This is #1 in a seasonal series of landscape paintings featuring snow.
I’m very busy marking student essays and preparing for the Winter festival, while suffering various colds and unexplained fevers, so I thought I’d rummage through my image bin and post a wide selection of snow scenes over the next couple of weeks - interspersed [...]
Continuing a series about Art Directors in the British film industry up to 1948, when the book containing these articles was published.
This chapter deals with John Howell.
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Fame Is The Spur was Honor Blackman’s first screen appearance.
John Howells started his long cinematic career in the 1930’s. After the second world war he [...]
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