It Isn't Only Suffering That The Old Masters Were Right About

[poliphilo]

When I'm photographing landscapes I like to expose for the sky. I don't want my clouds all wishy washy. I want them  to dominate the picture.

Which means that my  foregrounds are usually rather dark. 

I was browsing  through my galleries just now and it suddenly hit me  that the Impressionists got it wrong. Nature isn't all red and mauve and green and yellow. In fact She's mostly brown- as in an old master painting. 

Constable, Ruysdael, Poussin are closer  to the appearance of things than Monet or  Van Gogh.

Which isn't at all what the art historians say.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's the prettiness of Impressionism that turns me off. Renoir painted one or two fine pictures, but most of his work is Victorian sentimentalism.