tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181718303690174801.post8190450434063246465..comments2023-06-27T03:58:35.067-07:00Comments on Landscape Painting References: Golden SkiesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181718303690174801.post-3213224584749358112013-04-12T21:43:58.345-07:002013-04-12T21:43:58.345-07:00Not gold dust, but maybe yellow sulphur?Not gold dust, but maybe yellow sulphur?jeronimushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09099993403604440221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181718303690174801.post-60059476727141888512013-04-12T21:42:47.786-07:002013-04-12T21:42:47.786-07:00Hi Hels.
Japanese screens seem to have been all th...Hi Hels.<br />Japanese screens seem to have been all the rage at the time.<br />Personally I have never seen a sky that was truly yellow; blazing orange/red, or silver, yes. But often what I love most in painting are the liberties that painters take with representation.<br />The giant eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 produced particularly brilliant sunsets, but unless there was gold dust in the volcanic plume...<br />I've read that, towards the end of his life, Inness mainly painted from memory, rather than in the field, so the poetic element would have predominated.jeronimushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09099993403604440221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181718303690174801.post-34132131676361821292013-04-12T16:24:35.474-07:002013-04-12T16:24:35.474-07:00I was thinking of this very question this week whe...I was thinking of this very question this week when the students were examining the Heidelberg artists in Australia, largely in the 1885-1905 era. Collections of Heidelberg paintings are almost always titled Golden Summers, for appropriate reasons.<br /><br />But how realistic are golden skies and how symbolic are they? I suppose it depends which country the artist is in, which season and which time of day. The gold leaf background of your Japanese example could not have been taken from life.. But could the top two paintings?<br /><br /> Or could the golden light of dusk be painted from life, then heightened for poetic effects.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.com