There was quite a crowd at the gallery that day, so I couldn't stand back from this very large piece to get it in 'full frontal' as it were. Thus, the rather skewed view. However, once again, for the keen, you can pop over to the National Gallery page to view it more correctly. You can have fun using the magnification to look at the amazing reality of the waters... or, as I did, to discover something not noted when I was with the actual painting on the day. A tiny figure, top left... here is a screen print from the magnifier.
This portion is obscured in my photograph due to light reflection. However, when I looked back at my photo, I realised there was another miniature within the grand scale of this work that I had missed at the gallery viewing - and even when magnifying. I returned to that link and bring it to you now. Would you go out to look from such an angled structure? Is it not amusing?!!
The realism of the water is uncanny.
ReplyDeletethat is so well done, we can hear the water... the place we all know but sadly never saw...
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ReplyDeleteBeautiful painting of the waterfall! Take care, have a wonderful week!
ReplyDeleteWonderful painting conveying the force of the falls and its thundering noise. If I had a dollar for every time I have been there, YAM, you and I could have a very fine dinner. Niagara Falls, and the Niagara River, in November and early December are among the best gull watching locations in the world. Dress warmly though!
ReplyDeleteLove the painting! I've always wanted to see the Falls in person and I haven't been there yet.
ReplyDeleteYAM this is beautiful the people on the platform was breathtakingly beautiful and scary. I'm not a fan of heights but I enjoyed seeing it through the painting. So happy you enjoyed the insulators with memories of dear Dad.
ReplyDeleteHugs Cecilia
What a beautiful painting and fun hidden gems to find in it. In modern times there are viewing platforms that are very safe in about that same location as the man in the painting. I was glad I finally got to have a ride on the "Maid of the Mist" boat that ventures into the area below the falls a few years ago. You can't imagine how powerful all that water is until you've been below the falls. What a thrilling experience.
ReplyDeleteWow! Such detail...and I adore the color he created!
ReplyDeleteFrederic Church is one of my favorite Hudson River School artists. Also thank you for the alert that Nobby has a new post. I was just thinking that it would have been almost time for Gail and Nobby to share the crocus display in Duthie Park. I'm so glad a happy life continues for the dear little fellow.
ReplyDeleteThat truly is amazing creation of the falls. So interesting to see the detail of those tiny people hidden in there. I think I may have been to Niagara when I was a very young child, but I don't really remember it. Thanks for another beautiful sharing.
ReplyDeleteThat painting really does capture the rushing waters! But nowadays one can't do as the gentleman on that little outlook was doing...and there are fences all around the whole river. Though there are newer safer viewing places. You can get on the Maid of the Mist and get close to the bottom of the falls, and there is also a walkway, supervised by guides, that bring you under them. I have been to the falls many times, grew up there about 90 miles or so from it, so we often went there with any company form Europe, etc. I was there a few summers ago with one of my cousins and we went to the American side, and it was a lovely restful park. Not at all like the very commercialized Canadian side...which is where the best view of both parts of the falls are.
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