Wednesday, October 25, 2017

25th October

Something to take one's mind off the continual bleating of news, still like it, as apparently half of Bath's residents do as well!


Watersplash’ by Henry Herbert La Thangue (1859-1929) – which was voted the most popular painting in the Victoria Art Gallery’s collection – depicts a scene of traditional English rural life as a flock of geese are driven through a shallow stream by a boy with a stick.

Manager of the Victoria Art Gallery, said: “‘Watersplash’ transports us so successfully to a place of sunny, rural tranquillity that it is hard to believe what a radical painting it was in its time.
“Victorian taste dictated that artists should use fine brushes to give a porcelain-like finish to their pictures. In contrast, La Thangue used square hog’s hair brushes to create a richly textured surface – focusing on movement and light rather than detail to paint everyday subjects as spontaneously and naturally as possible.”

4 comments:

  1. he certainly got the movement of water and the dappled sunlight just right.

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  2. The reflections on the water are beautiful. I much prefer this to some of the Victorian sentimental pictures I've seen.
    Arilx

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  3. Wow, thanks for this. I truly wish I had this on my wall. What a wonderful depth.

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  4. Glad you all enjoyed it, seem to be wordless at the moment...

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