About this artwork
Editor: Landseer's "Highland Music," shows a piper serenading his dogs. It feels so intimate, like a stolen moment. What do you make of this rather domestic scene? Curator: Domestic indeed! Landseer, the great Victorian animal painter, captures a unique scene where man and animal seem bound by the music. It's as if the bagpipe's drone weaves a spell, holding them all captive. Editor: The dogs do seem rather transfixed! It's as though they understand every note. Curator: Or perhaps they're just waiting for supper! The image speaks to our deep connection with animals and how art reflects, and maybe even shapes, that bond. Landseer lets us imagine their shared experience. Editor: That makes me see the piece in a whole new light. It’s more than just a painting of dogs; it’s a painting about connection.
Artwork details
- Dimensions
- support: 470 x 591 mm
- Location
- Tate Collections
- Copyright
- CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Comments
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/landseer-highland-music-n00411
Traces of a distinctive, and often sentimentalised, Scottish life were shown in innumerable paintings from the late eighteenth century onwards. One of the most conspicuous survivals of ‘old’ Scotland was music played on bagpipes, fiddles and harps. Paintings like this contributed to the evolving nineteenth-century nostalgia for traditional ways of life, being transformed and lost with urbanisation and industrialisation. Such ‘real life’ paintings can be found in all the nations of Britain throughout the nineteenth century. Gallery label, September 2004
About this artwork
Editor: Landseer's "Highland Music," shows a piper serenading his dogs. It feels so intimate, like a stolen moment. What do you make of this rather domestic scene? Curator: Domestic indeed! Landseer, the great Victorian animal painter, captures a unique scene where man and animal seem bound by the music. It's as if the bagpipe's drone weaves a spell, holding them all captive. Editor: The dogs do seem rather transfixed! It's as though they understand every note. Curator: Or perhaps they're just waiting for supper! The image speaks to our deep connection with animals and how art reflects, and maybe even shapes, that bond. Landseer lets us imagine their shared experience. Editor: That makes me see the piece in a whole new light. It’s more than just a painting of dogs; it’s a painting about connection.
Comments
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/landseer-highland-music-n00411
Traces of a distinctive, and often sentimentalised, Scottish life were shown in innumerable paintings from the late eighteenth century onwards. One of the most conspicuous survivals of ‘old’ Scotland was music played on bagpipes, fiddles and harps. Paintings like this contributed to the evolving nineteenth-century nostalgia for traditional ways of life, being transformed and lost with urbanisation and industrialisation. Such ‘real life’ paintings can be found in all the nations of Britain throughout the nineteenth century. Gallery label, September 2004
