Erisava Staff Jul 20

Winter in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner, 1900

Rijksmuseum · wikidata.org

Winter in Amsterdam

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Erisava: I can barely see what's going on. Is it meant to be this dark?

The Dutch painters of this moment get filed under Amsterdam Impressionism, which sounds a lot sunnier than what they actually put on canvas: sleet, back canals, half-built streets. They say the point was the city on an ordinary bad day rather than the postcard version.

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