Frederic Edwin Church, The Icebergs, 1861

Posted on September 21, 2016 by kinneret

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Hello, and welcome. I'm writing this blog under an alias. Why an alias? I started to write what may be described as an "American Gothic" novel (sort of Henry James/ Franz Kafka with violence) with some autobiographical details. ..when I started this blog I just decided to use the alias. This blog is about art and art history, but my interests also include literature, film analysis, psychology, forensic psychology, faerie tale analysis, cognitive therapy, cognitive linguistics, classical theater, World War II, and Russian and British history. My favorite writers include Kafka, the Brontes, and Philip K Dick. Thank you for reading this blog and I will happily reply to any comments.
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7 Responses to Frederic Edwin Church, The Icebergs, 1861

  1. marblenecltr says:
    September 21, 2016 at 2:35 am

    Mr. Church, thank you for transporting your heavy equipment to an environment I would not go to with the best of the clothing, shelters, and transportation we have today. Setting up your easel, doing whatever you had to do one hundred and fifty-five years a go to apply your skills so that I could appreciate your work in a comfortable home via the internet. Don’t know what the internet is? Just ask some recent arrivals to your present address, a lot has happened here since you left. In the mean time, thank you for your great work, presenting scenes I can appreciate without traveling to places I don’t want to visit.

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    • kinneret says:
      September 21, 2016 at 3:06 am

      Well. actually I think he painted this based on sketches that were from one of the famous expeditions.

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      • marblenecltr says:
        September 21, 2016 at 3:21 am

        Now I have a decision to make. Either, I didn’t just read that, or I will have to take back my earlier comment. Did artists really cheat like that in the Victorian era? Or whatever era it was, like early in the Lincoln era.

      • kinneret says:
        September 21, 2016 at 12:15 pm

        yes, they would have had to because of the exotic locations and difficult locales (this same school of artists also painted images of far away places lie the Amazon)
        . Although in the case of the Hudson School of Art, I am sure that they really did situate themselves near the Hudson River to paint those glorious sunsets.

  2. marblenecltr says:
    September 21, 2016 at 2:36 am

    Reblogged this on necltr and commented:
    Man, do we have it easy or what!

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  3. napoleonsplit says:
    October 5, 2016 at 12:51 pm

    Beautiful. Reminds me so much of the poem “The Imaginary Iceberg” by Elizabeth Bishop.

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    • kinneret says:
      October 5, 2016 at 6:56 pm

      I have heard of her but not read her. I’ll look up that poem. Yes, I like this as inspiration to do some painting at home. Landscapes although somewhat more abstract than this one.

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