Thayer's Mountain
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- Sometimes areas of abstraction in a painting can transform a standard painting into an amazing masterpiece, such as what is seen in Abbott Thayer's painting of a mountain near his studio.
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Thank you so much for the introduction to this artist and his landscape painting.
Que ALEGRÍA Jill 😃😃😃😃😃
Que Alegría!!! 😂😂😂!!!!
ESPECTACULAR Video!!!
Nos regalastes un hermoso Video que ya lo estábamos extrañando!!!!! Muchísimas Gracias!!!! 😃😃😃. Lo disfruté Muchísimo!!!! Particularmente nos haces DISFRUTAR las Pinturas cómo Nadie lo hace!!! Y llegamos (gracias a ti y a tu esfuerzo), no solo apreciar de forma única la pintura ; sino que llegamos a percibir algo de los sentimientos propios del artista al Pintar!!!!!!!!😃😃😃 En tan solo 5 minutos nada más ; nos regalas una información Magistral!!! . Muchas Gracias!!!
Y eso solo lo puede hacer quien ve las pinturas con el corazón !!!😃😃😃❤️
Muchisimas Gracias Jill...!!!!😃😃😃 Y muchos saludos a tu Esposo!!!😊😊😊
¡Muchas gracias por tus comentarios tan amables, Víctor! Realmente me encanta presentarles estas fabulosas pinturas a todos, y es mi recompensa saber cuánto disfrutan y se benefician de mis videos. Me siento honrado.
I love all Thayer's paintings,especially up close. You can see all the thinking and re working that went into them. Ive been to that museum. I went over 20 yrs ago and I keep thinking about it. Thats my favorite floral too!
Re "You can see all the thinking and re working that went into them." - I totally agree
I was fascinated throughout this piece…his work, his variety of treatments of the mountain he loved, the inclusion of his portraits and the floral still life (I kind of gasped when I saw the still-life - it was so full of light and life and so different from the mountain pieces). I was surprised to see - in the museum - how large Monadnock No 2 was. But I especially love and can relate to his relationship with the mountain. I try to catch all of your CZcams work. I really enjoy them.
I'm so glad you enjoyed this. Yes, isn't it amazing how different his work is by genre?
Your videos are very calming for me. Thank you :)
That's so nice to hear
*Thanks* for the presentation
John Henry Twachtman was a member of the "Ten" along with George Inness. One of his techniques was to paint the top of the warp and weft of the canvas giving a pixelated image. Can still remember a winter scene of his at the Metropolitan Museum of Art last century where he used this technique. The image seemed to float in front of the background.
Anyone looking and listening to your videos has to appreciate the work you did on these. Thank you for introducing Thayers to me. Quite interesting. Regards.
I wish this kind of sensitivity about art was taught to kids in schools.
There is perhaps some attempts on few places, but not in general.
And when this language of seeing the world is not taught, the emotional development goes in other, often arrogant directions.
You are doing great work with this series of describing the way we can observe and appreciate.
Thank you so much
It reminds me of a painting I'm copying of a autumn/winter scene where the shadows under distant trees are actually a lavender color.
I've missed my in-depth art appreciation lessons.
I inverted my screen to view his work. It's so well balanced. It made perfect sense when viewed upside down. I can understand how he was able to come up with the idea of camouflage.
I'm afraid I've been a little sidetracked lately by some life events, but hopefully I can be a little more frequent again. Hopefully. Glad you enjoyed this one!
I'm looking forward to visiting the Freer Museum to see their collection.
Oh yes...it's a beautiful collection. You'll love it.
I love the sense of depth he created with the distant mountain! It wouldn't be the same piece without it.
I totally agree
Thank you for sharing your surprise encounter and introducing Abbott Thayer's painting to this community, these followers; your comments are so educational. Camouflage eh, pretty good history. Seeing through your eyes and words is wonderful.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it, Jim.
Your last sentence is beautiful ❤
I so appreciate you taking the effort to include beautiful, high resolution shots of his work; it is, in a word, magnificent. I had no idea the Freer gallery housed some of my favorites pieces of his! I'll have to add it to the list of museums to visit. Would love to see you cover Dennis Miller Bunker, if you haven't already. He was so impressed with Thayer's work, and it's easy to see why.
The Freer also has collections of work by Whistler, Tryon, and Dewing....so wonderful! I actually haven't featured Bunker yet, but I will put him on the list for the future. Thank you for the reminder!
This is great, Me want more! I want to paint this, but
I love brushwork that doesn’t make any sense up close. 🙂
Yes, it's almost magical!
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A mountain for a muse 😄
Thank you Jill for this interesting video especially about camouflage. I am trying to train my eye and brain to appreciate art, that initially gives me visual confusion. Two thing do this in this painting. One is the blurriness on the right compared to the more distinctive strokes on the left. The other is the greater abstractness in the mid and foreground compared to the more detailed mountaintop. It seems to go against visual perspective principles and make my brain object. Can you please explain if this was intentional and if so what he was trying to say in this piece. His other paintings of the mountain that you showed are wonderful.
I do think the blurry and harsh contrast was intentional. I say that because it’s such a significant difference. I would guess that he wanted the blurry side to recede visually (as is usually the case when things are blurred…kind of like blurring in photographs). If both sides were sharp, it would work fine but I think it would take away from the way your eye leads down the path. There would be more “going on” in the scene…more lines competing for your visual attention. This way, the blurred side subtly supports the sharp side and your eye sweeps up the mountain.
To me - to my eye - that abstract section in the middle (the soft violet) looks like a final thought. I wonder if he had painted it one way, was never really pleased with how it worked, and decided to abstractly paint it as a large edged shape? It’s a guess. It just seems like a final thought to me. If that area was originally dark, as it appears to have been (dark violet), your eye would tend to skip from snow to mountain top. With that mid-tone there, you glide up to the mountain top, visually. The abstract nature of the brushwork, to me, just gives a feeling of excitement…in the moment.
Does that help give some ideas as to possible intention? I think he was generally feeling the scene and the result was fast, broad brushwork.
@@JillPoyerdFineArt Thank you. Great to have your insight and certainly makes me think, which is always good. 😊❤
Camouflage was first developed by French artists during the First World War. The word camouflage was derived from a French verb meaning 'to make up for the stage'. The U.S. began using camouflage in the Second World War with the invasion of Normandy.
Like many topics, there may be a bit of controversy related to this. Here are two reliable resources you can reference regarding my perspective on this:
abbottthayer.com/essay/lost-and-found-abbott-thayer-and-the-study-of-camouflage/
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2674083/
Thanks for this video Jill. However, you must have forgotten to enable subtitles. Greetings from Rio de Janeiro.
Oh yes - Let me check on that...Done! You should see them added now.
@@JillPoyerdFineArt Thanks Jill!
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