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Jul. 25th, 2010 03:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
proximoceptionWhile I'm in a visual mood, here's the landscape I liked at the Met. The Met's own site does the most justice to it (though not much) because of the zoom tool. Click on the painting to enlarge first.
http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/european_paintings/wheat_fields_jacob_van_ruisdael/objectview_enlarge.aspx?page=22&sort=0&sortdir=asc&keyword=&fp=1&dd1=11&dd2=0&vw=1&collID=11&OID=110002002&vT=1&hi=0&ov=0
The point is the cloud shadows, which seem startlingly lifelike and animate in person, and ominous, and the tiny mother protecting her tiny child. Safety and danger. The healthy and normal world so vast and fragile. The dark invasions silent, unguessable, unfightable, innocent. Passing the same as they come.
http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/european_paintings/wheat_fields_jacob_van_ruisdael/objectview_enlarge.aspx?page=22&sort=0&sortdir=asc&keyword=&fp=1&dd1=11&dd2=0&vw=1&collID=11&OID=110002002&vT=1&hi=0&ov=0
The point is the cloud shadows, which seem startlingly lifelike and animate in person, and ominous, and the tiny mother protecting her tiny child. Safety and danger. The healthy and normal world so vast and fragile. The dark invasions silent, unguessable, unfightable, innocent. Passing the same as they come.
