3-minute meditation: A slow look at Hobbema's Dutch landscape | National Gallery
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Published 2024-01-02
The composition of this painting was a powerful influence on later artists. It was admired by Van Gogh, who emulated its effects in several paintings after he first saw it in the National Gallery in 1884, and it probably also inspired Camille Pissarro’s 'The Avenue, Sydenham'. David Hockney even made his own version in 2017, 'Tall Dutch Trees After Hobbema (Useful Knowledge)'.
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All Comments (13)
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This was amazing. Thank you so much.
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Such a beautiful landscape painting!! Thanks to The National Gallery for explaining it so beautifully!!😊😊❤❤
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More please. That was brilliant
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A beautiful painting and a good story. I feel relax and enjoy. Thank you very much🥰😃
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A very dreamy narration. I found a poem about this avenue. By a person who lived there as kid in the new houses. Here is my translation of the last part: The Avenue is now called Stoneroad and Is located in a gray new-build neighborhood. Happiness and stately are expelled there, No painter gives a cheerful look yet. The painting that hangs in London, In a museum of the state. I saw him there, my street, Behind glass, unscathed through the centuries. (Het Laantje heet nu Steneweg en ligt in een grauwe nieuwbouwwijk. Geluk en statigheid zijn daar verdreven, geen schilder geeft er nog blijmoedig kijk. Het schilderij dat hangt in Londen, in een museum van de staat. Ik heb hem daar gezien, mijn straat, achter glas, door de eeuwen ongeschonden.)
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Great idea 😀
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👽 Peacefulness and beauty to the eye of the beholder. Thank you.
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very enjoyable way to look at art, your voice is amazingly calming
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Thank you!
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Magnífico 🙏✨🖼️ Un ejercicio de relajación con una obra de arte novedosa idea.
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Not being an art connoisseur, my first thoughts are of the Dutch method of doing things. Such as the house is large but there are no windows. I’m sure glass was expensive and hard to get, so the house had to be dark and somewhat cold - literally and mentally. Something that seems very odd are the rows and rows of trees on the right and left. Pruned and well-tended but for what purpose? I guess land was more available for aesthetics in 1689? Those trees and the trees lining the road also seem to blend with the Dutch tendency for things being built, grown or placed just so to create a regimented but beautiful landscape or atmosphere. That’s appealing to my anal tendencies.😁
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It is almost perfect. Perfect would be if you would show paintings slowly, going into details but just visually, no talking. Human voice disrupt enjoyment of looking. Cheers ❤
