Winter At The Gallery

You most likely know, I've been writing about missing winter due to excessively warm weather during winter months. Last night I posted some snowflake photos I was lucky to capture and also said I'm getting ready to capture more snowflakes today.

Well, if you're not 2 years old, you know that plans are plans and reality is a totally different thing and that's exactly what's happened to me. After the few days we had temperatures around -6C, -8C, came a little warmer period, resulting in temperatures around 0C, totally not suitable for my purpose, but I didn't realize that, until today.

Yesterday I said we're expecting snowfall this afternoon and I'll be ready to shoot some lively snowflakes, even prepared my cleaning gear to wash the ledge for the event, then this morning I woke up to ankle deep wet snow. Obviously I was happy to finally see snow, but when I saw how wet the snow is, knew right away I'm not going to get any chance to capture snowflakes and when I went to the balcony ledge and saw there was no snow there, just water, my suspicions were immediately confirmed.

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So today, instead of snowflakes, I'm going to show you what winter looked like in the exhibition room in December, when I visited an amateur art exhibition called "Winter tale". You ca read about my experience in my first post.

Lajos Czirjék

A blueish winter landscape from Lajos Czirjék, which was among the most expensive ones, costing around 300 euro. He's a respected name among artists and the painting was not quite small, so definitely not for sharing a wall with several paintings in an apartment. I like how the light filters through the trees.

Dorina Mototolea

This was an interesting one by all standards. No title, so you see what you want, without knowing what the artist meant. The technique is one you don't see often in galleries and I like how colorful it is. Winter can be colorful and that's exactly what this painting shows.

Dorina Mototolea

Another winter landscape from the same artist, a bit different one, capturing the time when trees still have their dry, brown leaves, while snow is already covering the ground beneath the trees and the hills behind. I like the brushstrokes and the light, pastel colors used here.

Ferenc Orbán

There's something I'm noticing looking at these paintings. Winter is known to be colorless in a way, gloomy, dark and boring in this sense. If you scroll back and look at the photos, some colors are added to each of them and most likely that's inspired by what you see in real life. Should we have a better look at the our surroundings, to find these colors? maybe we should.

Olga Albert

It's a winter painting, but could be a photo as well, or a real scene at a village, where the old man is walking up the hill.

Alexandra Laura Moldovan

This canvas reminds me of those cold winters, when instead of snow, we had frost, but the cold was not enough for the creeks to freeze, so only the ground and the grass was white. You don't see many paintings about frost, most artists are focusing on snow. I love the colors here.

Zsófia Neagoe

Kind of similar landscape, like the one above, just that frost is switched to snow. As you can see, choosing the right colors can be crucial and adding a bit of orange to suggest a sunset or the presence of sun can work wonders.

Liliana Lazar

A snowless winter scene in the woods, which is so common these days. How do you find this painting? Does it have some kind of calming effect on you? Or are you annoyed by the lack of leaves?

Lajos Czirjék

I left this paining last, not because it's not important, on the contrary. I'd be happy to have this on on my wall, but it was too big for the space I have available. Look at that village scene, with the cute houses, the hills and the haystacks that look like sugar coated haystack. How can you not like it?

Now let's see who likes these winter paintings and which one is going to be the winner this time.

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