/lit/ - Literature

I had the pleasure of spending a few hours at the National Gallery again a few days ago. This time it was the Ruysdael landscape that impressed me most as well as the one Phillips Koninck that they have.

This one by Hammershoi is another favourite. It's amazing how he only painted essentially one house and two women (his wife and his mother), just placing them within these enclosed spaces and using only white, black and brown to make his work and yet it's all so effective. It's at that wonderful edge between figurative and abstract, minimalism done right. And I also love how although he of course knows the two women very well, we never get to see them quite well enough that we'd know them on the street, they're always too far away, their backs are turned, etc.