tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2113327012084450817.post328691195487381287..comments2023-10-26T15:29:27.753+01:00Comments on Written In Exile: The Lone PineIsabel Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974989548030799086noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2113327012084450817.post-24154688996994872622012-01-07T23:27:25.004+00:002012-01-07T23:27:25.004+00:00Fascinating...Fascinating...Tess Kincaidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04889725786678984293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2113327012084450817.post-25780764407414339862012-01-06T15:34:49.439+00:002012-01-06T15:34:49.439+00:00Most interesting stuff. I do believe there is a co...Most interesting stuff. I do believe there is a connection between landscape and psyche. As someone told me long ago, "people have power in certain places." Thomson certainly found his, but at a terrible cost it seems. Thank you.dshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07616750784052488695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2113327012084450817.post-7324793877599560752012-01-04T20:02:22.047+00:002012-01-04T20:02:22.047+00:00Very interesting and instructive. I think the gre...Very interesting and instructive. I think the great UK landscape painters captured the scenes of their era, even though they romanticised the lifestyle or the landworkers.Doctor FTSEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10052101566471519778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2113327012084450817.post-13054626163553626262012-01-04T06:43:42.243+00:002012-01-04T06:43:42.243+00:00nicely done... thanks for sharing your wordsnicely done... thanks for sharing your wordsWayne Pitchkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15376196523487344143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2113327012084450817.post-76661823594809296242012-01-04T04:06:26.265+00:002012-01-04T04:06:26.265+00:00You write of my home turf in Northern Ontario, and...You write of my home turf in Northern Ontario, and I must say you do it justice -- the pleasures of the clambering, the streakiness of quartz, the feeling that glaciers are present. Love the "so many dirty mops" for branches, the scent.<br /><br />When I was in Sydney a few years ago, I was struck by the palettes at a quilt show. Everything tilted toward the yellow -- orange earth, Kathy Bischopinghttp://drinkthenewwine.blogspot.com/2012/01/rose-daughter-part-i.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2113327012084450817.post-37754868001205904622012-01-04T03:23:42.188+00:002012-01-04T03:23:42.188+00:00it is an intersting supposition...i think there is...it is an intersting supposition...i think there is plenty of american art that captures moments defining and giving symbolism to what the country once was...Brian Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722940075884718007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2113327012084450817.post-46861738158227803702011-03-18T09:42:04.488+00:002011-03-18T09:42:04.488+00:00Thanks Tim, I looked up Petrus van der Velden and ...Thanks Tim, I looked up Petrus van der Velden and was very taken by his paintings, would like to see some in the oil, as it were. After posting that piece I've since found out that the Group of Seven is no longer quite pc because they painted 'terra nullis' but I would argue the paintings are full of spirits.Isabel Doylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974989548030799086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2113327012084450817.post-29105781963923666572011-03-16T11:19:26.343+00:002011-03-16T11:19:26.343+00:00Paintings of New Zealand by early European immigra...Paintings of New Zealand by early European immigrants contrive to make the New Zealand bush look like polite, manicured southern English woodland. The first European artist I'm aware of to paint New Zealand in a way that actually looks like New Zealand was <a href="http://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/multimedia/print/infosheets/petrus-van-der-velden-mountain-stream-otira-gorge/" rel="Tim Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14856414700019368658noreply@blogger.com