Dr. Stark presented each area of art by its style and century the piece was excuted. We were first introduced to Bruegel, Winter Landscape with Skaters and Bird Trap, 1565
Friedrich, Graveyard Under Snow, 1827
Renaissance to Rococo Fifteenth to Eighteenth Century
Limbourg Brothers, Tres riches heures du Duc de Berry (February) 1413-1416
Goya, Winter Scene, 1786 (Sometimes these scenes were painted for weavers who wove them into tapestries to be hung on wall). A simplier version of this painting was first done for a tapestry.
Boucher, Winter, (Four Seasons Series) 1765 - All of them of loving couples. Don't you love this sleigh?
Avercamp, Scene on Ice, 1625
Romanticism
Friedrich, Winter Landscape, 1811 - If you enlarge this painting you will see a man sitting by the large evergreen with his crutches thrown in the snow looking at a religious cross. It is debatable if he has been cured or if he has come to die.
Turner, Snowstorm, 1837
Realism
Courbet, Fox in the Snow, 1860
Impressionism and Post Impressionism
Monet, Sandvika, Norway, 1895
Pissarro, Rabbit Warren at Pontoise, Snow 1879
Monet, Ice Floes, 1880 (painted after his wife Camille (32) died of cancer), symbolizes the breaking apart of his life.
Ashcan School, early twentieth century, realism, depicting people the way they lived
Henri, Snow in New York, 1902
Bellows, Morning Snow - Hudson River, 1910
Twentieth Century
Burchfield, Orion in Winter, 1962
Richter, Ice, 1989
I think I have changed my mind about winter, it is certainly art! I still do not like the shoveling and the driving in the snow, but it is a fascinating happening each year in many parts of the world and to the artist has very life cyclical meaning. If you would like to see Dr. Stark's complete visual presentation you can access it at
http://mdid.artic.edu/ , log in is public, password is public. left menu bar select Slide show, under Slide show select author Stark, David, select Slide show Winter Wonderland.
