Something of picture-book Holland comes through in "Winter Landscape" (1616) by Esaias Van De Velde, which highlights ice skating.
This immediately reminded me of some of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's winter scenes like "Winter Landscape With Skaters and a Bird Trap" (1565).
In western Tennessee and Mississippi, an idyllic winter landscape began to thaw today as rising temperatures melted snowmen and cleared snow-covered rooftops.
Caspar David Friedrich "Winter Landscape with Church": A very German winter.
However, Twachtman's "Winter Landscape," a whiteout scene from the early 1890s verging on abstraction, is not dissimilar from Monet's haystacks or cathedrals of the 1890s, in which light and atmosphere were the most important subjects of the paintings.
Open image in new window Fig. 1 Winter landscape with ice skaters by Hendrick Avercamp (1608).
Mr. Lilian also showed a rare winter landscape with skaters on a frozen canal painted by Aert van der Neer around 1640.
One Kandinsky painting here, "Winter Landscape," shows the artist experimenting with the bold colors that dominated his work in later years.
A day of heavy snow may have turned swaths of the Sierra Nevada into a winter landscape, but it's too early to tell if it will have a lasting effect on the winter snowpack, forecasters say.
Much of this year's garden and patio furniture is brightly colored and will give a lift to the drab winter landscape, as well as to the spirits.
The session will concentrate on shooting the winter landscape.
