Blick auf die Vajolet-Türme in den Dolomiten 1905

Edward Theodore Compton painted these mountains in watercolour, but when? I imagine him standing in the cold, painting these cool, greyish mountains. He must have been freezing! Look at the brushstrokes, how they capture the jagged edges of the rock. See that kind of washy, thin paint he uses to indicate the fog, or mist, down below? The medium of watercolour becomes a perfect tool to describe atmosphere, which kind of gives the mountains a looming feeling. Painting mountains like this, it's not just about copying what's there, it's about feeling it, and then turning that feeling into a picture. It is like a conversation, he speaks and then the mountains answer! Painters talk to each other through their work across time. Looking at this reminds me of other mountain paintings I have seen, each painter contributing their own voice to the conversation.