Thursday 19 February 2015

Balke

My review of Peder Balke at the National Gallery is up on The Dabbler, with bigger and better pictures.

4 comments:

  1. Took in Balke today after Rubens at the RA (quite a difference!). I loved the frightening but somehow personal presences of the mountains (Mount Stendit?) looming out of the fog above the sea. I was also reminded of Caspar David Friedrich who I saw in the summer in Berlin.Thanks for the recommendation.

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  2. Yes a lot of Friedrich in some of his work.
    I'm not feeling strong enough for the Rubens, and rather doubt I ever will...

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  3. Yes a lot of Friedrich in some of his work.
    I'm not feeling strong enough for the Rubens, and rather doubt I ever will...

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  4. It wasn't marvellous. Three fabulous paintings for me - The Garden of Love, Grimaldi and the Dwarf and Pan and Syrinx with a fabulous Cezanne, a great Constable and two Bacons. Not enough of the best Rubens though.

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