… looks like a nineteenth century landscape painting. Like the other garden photo a couple of posts down, this was taken early on this late autumn morning, with the sun already up and doing its thing.
It all made me think of the poem “Sunlight on the Garden.”
December 5th, 2020 at 5:14PM
Thought I was finished clicking around til the new year. But your fall backyard photo made me think of Adolph Menzel, German realist, whom I discovered via Michael Fried the Hopkins Art historian – Manet’s Modernism etc.
The first one is also a backyard scene. Yours is lovely, his different because it is beautiful dilapidation:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adolph_von_Menzel_-_Rear_of_House_and_Backyard_-_WGA15047.jpg
And, prettier, but not over the line, is, is Menzel’s almost proto impressioism:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adolph_Menzel_-_Das_Balkonzimmer_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
December 6th, 2020 at 6:14AM
Greg: What a wonderful discovery Menzel is! Thank you. And as for Michael Fried: I was in grad school when I discovered his super-nasty exchange with T.J. Clark in Critical Inquiry – and it was an important moment in my life. The passion and knowledge and insolence both men brought to the fight taught me many things.