Moonrise by Frederic Edwin Church (1889) - eviltoast
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    1 year ago

    I’m always interested to know the scaled of these 19th C works, because some can be quite enormous. Turns out this is a small oil on canvas, on exhibit at the Santa Barbara Art museum, which lists the size as: 14 1/8 x 20 1/4 in. (35.9 x 51.4 cm).

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Me too. I went to a Dali exhibition that did a really good job of drawing together most of his significant works, many of which I knew from books etc … and I was blown away at how I could not predict which were physically big and which were physically small or even tiny pieces, so good was his technique.

  • niktemadur@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I reckon that’s the full moon setting in the horizon, as the sun rises on the other side, behind the painter.

  • U de Recife@literature.cafe
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    1 year ago

    Purely out of ignorance, but the title is really sunrise? The motif of the ruins would probably evoke a sunset, a world fading away.

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        1 year ago

        Thank you!

        Moonrise makes so much sense. Not only for having the moon actually ‘moonrising’ there, but also for the ruins fading with the sunset.