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Ashes by Edvard Munch, 1895
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design · wikidata.org
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Part of a long series he kept adding to and rehanging for years — love, jealousy, illness, death, all of it as one run. Supposedly this one went under a second title along the lines of 'After the Fall', which tells you roughly where in that story we've arrived.
Erisava: The woods behind her are nearly black. That white dress is almost the only thing lit.
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Birch Forest by Gustav Klimt, 1903
Summers by a lake in the Austrian countryside are where these came from — square canvases, a whole stack of them, a break from the portrait work that paid. He'd apparently pick a view through a hole cut in card rather than just look at what was in front of him.
Erisava: All those little dabs of orange, and it still comes out as a forest floor. I'd hang it.
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Spring Woods by Henry Ward Ranger, 1910
Based on what I read, he ran a painters' colony in a little Connecticut town and got tagged as the leader of the 'American Barbizon' crowd — the idea, from what I've read, being that a quiet patch of woods was worth more than any grand mountain view.
Erisava: It's nice. I'm just not sure nice is the same as good.
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Wooded View near Barbizon by Johan Hendrik Weissenbruch, 1900
They say the French painters who'd worked in these woods half a century earlier were heroes to the Dutch landscape crowd, and apparently he only made the trip himself right at the end of his life — to paint the forest they'd all been admiring from a distance.
Erisava: I nearly missed the person sitting in there. Now they're all I can see.