If someone is just waking up from a long sleep, like the Sleeping Beauty in the fairy tale, and has no idea what time or season it is, mother nature makes sure to let them know, or rather make them feel it as there are 35C outside. Yes, you guessed it right, it's summer, every day from morning till evening and from evening till the next morning and temperatures are quite unusually high.
This is the time when you usually want to find refuge somewhere else, where the weather is kinder, the sun is not scorching, the air is fresh and you can live through the day without draining your batteries in the first few hours.
This is what I felt when I stepped into the gallery this week, and had a look at the paintings. It's been a while since I saw such nature paintings, but never canvases of this size. It was an exceptional exhibition of Eduárd Csupán, called Beyond the Forest. You can read the first part of my experience here and today I'd like to show you more amazing paintings from the exhibition.
The Turquoise Forest
I'm not entirely sure if this is a real thing, or just my brain is wired like this, but for me green means fresh, cool and relaxing, which is why pretty much the whole exhibition was a very refreshing and joyful experience.
The whole exhibition space was full of paintings, all three rooms, but because these paintings were not small at all, there were not so many as usually are in other cases. So I started playing my usual mind game, that I always pay. The main idea comes from trading, and it says if you'd be allowed to take 5 trades per year, would this be one? This in plain English means you have to be careful and take only the best trades, that meet all the conditions and have high probability of turning out profitable.
You can apply this rule in almost every are of life and I'm always playing this game when I go to an exhibition. I'm looking at the paintings, or artworks and asking myself, if I'll be allowed to buy 5 artworks, would this be one? And to answer your question, this would definitely be one as it looks really mysterious and I love the colors used here. It's not really green, it's teal or turquoise mixed with green and the mustard green on the rocks is a nice distraction. I love it. For me, it looks like an underwater forest. Could very well be an illustration in a book, or a scene in a movie.
Look at these colors. How can you not love it?
Apart from the colors, what made me like these paintings do much is the details. Maybe it's not so obvious from the photos, but if you step loser, you literally see the small stones at the bottom of the creek and the whole scene is so inviting you wish to walk in the water barefoot.
Swamp Forest Oak
Some people say nature paintings are outdated and while I respect their opinion, can't understand how can this be possible.
Last, but not least, I'd like to close my post with this snowy landscape, which, at this heat, seems like life saving. Don't get me wrong, I have air conditioning, but still the outside temperature makes you long for a bit of cool air and seeing snow makes you want it more.
If you look at the details on this canvas, you can see the talent of the artist. Look at the reflections in the water, the shadows on the snow and so on. I'd be happy to have this canvas any day.
This is it for today and I truly hope you don't think nature paintings are outdated. Let me know in a comment.
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