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The Magpie by Monet was rejected by the 1869 Paris Salon for its innovative style.
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
This rejection led Monet to organize impressionist exhibitions. It’s now considered a masterpiece of early Impressionism.
There is something about snow in the impressionist style that I just find unexplainably beautiful.
Snow is not well expressed in literal styles; only really works expressionist.
It has a bit in common with faces, in that so much of what we seen in virgin snow is a mirror to our feels.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/6fe55111-00b8-4450-ad6c-3a47e0cb6751.webp
Well i can't not mention this here.
Mmmmmmm snow is very much a thing of record, a thing that cannot be touched without revealing some shit, but the character of fresh and worn snow and what it reflects is very different.
That is a great observation. You must leave a literal and metaphorical footstep there. So is not the case for other landscapes.
It's inherently hiding what is under it, just as rain reveals what was hidden.
Easy to lend itself to the psyche and creating internal art using the external.