Art critique

I have always enjoyed scenic landscape paintings. One piece of artwork that really caught my eye was the “Two Watermills and a Sluice” painting found at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. This particular painting was created by the Dutch artist Jacob van Ruisdael in 1653. Ruisdael created the painting using oil on a canvas. The paintings dimensions are 26 x 33.25 inches. Captured in the painting are, as the title reveals, two watermills. One of the watermills …showed first 75 words of 1013 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1013 total…I look at the image the painter has created and I find myself deep in thought, reminiscing about boyhood adventures in places just like that of the painting. Perhaps the artist created the painting for similar reasons; the landscape he was either creating or trying to replicate certainly must have evoked some kind of personal emotions. Why else would someone invest so much time in an endeavor unless it touched them in some special way?