Friedrich’s landscapes feel contemporary, despite being created in the 19th century.
They are not depictions of nature, but constructions of inner perception.
Lemmen reverses how memory works.
Instead of losing color and preserving form, he preserves color and lets form disappear.
The image is completed not on the canvas, but in the viewer’s memory.
"The figures in this 1609 painting are not the subject.
Remove them, and you discover what the painting is actually about.
And why the figures had to be there all along. https://t.co/73p1ZggBlZ
Sorolla’s light does not depict reality.
It holds the moment perception begins to turn into memory.
Form remains clear, but color has already shifted away from the present.