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■a- The Summerville News, Thurs., Dec. 21, 1967
Artistic Views Reflect 'Winter Wonderland"
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UK \l SE < HKIS'IMAS IS TH Alli IIO\ M l Y A WINTER WONDEKLANH, paintinKH *u<’li us “Winter Scene” by the Flemish artist
Hendrik Awunip seem Io capture ihe mood ami reflect the spirit of the holiday season. Avercamp devoted his talents Io depicting
the winter landscapes of Holland. This painting, which is in the Kijks Museum, Amsterdam, appears in the Grolier Book of Art,
a 10-volume encyclopedia.
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In Bethlehem, it’s the rainy
season.
In Hawaii, Santa Claus
might arrive by boat, and
Christmas could be celebrated
on a sunny beach. In Australia,
Christmas is a time for pic
nicking — it’s summer “down
under.”
Even in Northern lands, De
cember 25th does not always
provide the pleasures of a
"white Christmas.”
In spite of the varying climes
where Christmas is observed,
and in spite of the frequent
shortage of ice and snow at the
appropriate time, the tradi
tional image of Christmas is,
and probably always will be,
a wintry, snowy landscape —
celebrated in song and story,
pictured in countless paint
ings.
The countryside under a
blanket of snow, the hillside
drifted deep in white, the trees
bent down with snow or crys
tal-bright with ice, the lakes,
rivers and streams gleaming
in ice-covered magnificence —
these are favorite themes in
holiday lore, and favorite
dreams for all those who spend
Christmas cozily among the
conveniences of modern cen
trally-heated buildings and
modern transportation.
The “winter wonderland” of
ice and snow has been a fre-
' quent source of inspiration for
artists. There’s a wealth of
i winter landscape paintings
I that, although not directly as
l sociated with Christmas, seem
to set the mood and reflect the
. spirit of the season.
i In 16th and 17th century
Holland, for instance, a whole
tradition of landscape paint
; ing was devoted solely to de-
L picting winter scenes — some
what unusual since the winter
; weather of Holland is not es
’ pecially cold.
; For admirers of art and
■ white Christmases alike, one
of the definitive painters of
, winter scenes is Hendrik Av
, ercamp.
Perhaps because he devoted
, his artistic talents exclusively
to the winter landscape, Aver
camp’s paintings capture to
i perfection both the beauties
■ and pleasures of winter. Bare
> branches of trees etch their
patterns against expanses of
, ice, in contrast with the cozy
cottages and, on the ice, the
merry skaters, for an ideal
blending of the cold weather
■ and warm spirit of a winter
holiday.
Os Avercamp’s personal his
tory, little is known. Records
show that he was baptized in
Amsterdam in January 1585,
and buried at Kampen in 1634.
His painting was influenced
by the Flemish landscape tra
dition and particularly by Pie
ter Bruegel the Elder —a
painter whose fascination with
the winter scene did much to
shape his landscape style.
The snow-covered hillsides
seen in the work of the
elder Pieter Bruegel contrast
strangely with the flat, icy ter
rain of his native Holland. The
explanation is to be found in
travels which took him to
mountainous lands.
Bruegel became a master in
the Antwerp painters’ guild in
1551, and shortly afterward
journeyed to France and Italy,
says the Grolier Book of Art.
The mountains and scenery of
Italy made an immense im
pression on him, as reflected
in the drawings he made at the
time.
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