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Other hints of color present within the painting include red and yellow lights emanating from the dark locomotive. The red, focused most intensely at the front of the train, seems to "bloody the snow." [4] The yellow lights, in contrast, are not only brightly painted on the front of the engine, but appear at the vanishing point as well.
His winter scenes are solemn and still. They are often painted plein-air, with the artist using the thin, gray light of winter to create an appropriate atmosphere and illustrate the effect of light reflected off snow. According to the art historian Hermann Beenken, Friedrich painted winter scenes in which "no man has yet set his foot".
Horizontal brushstrokes emphasize the plain that fills most of the painting; tension is created by the diagonal strokes of the road cutting across the plain. Van Gogh uses color to depict the components of the landscape. White and violet are used for snow. Brown, green and blue is used to suggest puddles and slush left by melting snow.
Many of his paintings are narrative-based, with many anecdotes. For instance, included in the painting Winter Landscape with Skaters are several prurient details: a couple making love, naked buttocks, and a peeing male. Avercamp used the painting technique of aerial perspective. The depth is suggested by a change of color in the distance.
The Hunters in the Snow (Dutch: Jagers in de Sneeuw), also known as The Return of the Hunters, is a 1565 oil-on-wood painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.The Northern Renaissance work is one of a series of works, five of which still survive, that depict different times of the year.
The Shortening Winter's Day is near a Close; Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne; Sledging on the Neva; Snow at Argenteuil; Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps; Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth; A Sorcerer Comes to a Peasant Wedding; Stalingrad (painting) Stetind in Fog; Suvorov crossing the Alps
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A bird trap is seen to the left among other farm implements and the whole scene is overshadowed by a church to the left. Winter Landscape with Skaters is considered one of Avercamp's earliest works, and is painted in a style strongly reminiscent of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1565 painting Winter Landscape with Ice skaters and Bird trap. Some ...