Art world links which caught my eye…
Albert Pinkham Ryder "Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens" (1888/1891)
Albert Pinkham Ryder is a huge influence on me, and I am fortunate to have visite the painting above, "Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens," many times at the National Gallery in Washington, DC.
Ryder (March 19, 1847 – March 28, 1917) was an American painter of mysterious scenes. He is remembered for his beautiful moonlight noctures. Because of his unconventinal painting techniques many of his works have deteriorated. The best of his paintings have maintained their jewel-like presence, glowing with inner light.
"And yet, although what remains of them today is but a mere ghost of the radiance that so enchanted his contemporaries, something about Ryder's moody moonscapes still makes them more luminous and alive than any photograph of the Moon, for they were not a mere record of beauty but a portrait of a consciousness wonder-smitten by beauty — a living testament to William Blake's koan of a pronouncement that 'the Eye altering alters all.'"
Albert Pinkham Ryder "Moonlit Cove" 1888
Read the full article here: The Marginalian - The Night, the Light, and the Soul - Albert Pinkham Ryder's Enchanting Moonscapes
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