Dimensions: support: 352 x 445 mm frame: 467 x 562 x 50 mm
Copyright: CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This is Sir Edwin Landseer's "Loch Avon and the Cairngorm Mountains," and it’s such a brooding landscape. I’m curious, what is it about this particular depiction of the Scottish Highlands that resonates so strongly, even today? Curator: Landseer's popularity stemmed from his ability to romanticize the Scottish Highlands, aligning with a broader cultural fascination. This image, however, also reflects the political climate, where the Highlands were being reshaped by land clearances and evolving aristocratic ownership. Editor: So, it's more than just a pretty picture; it’s about the social landscape too. Curator: Precisely. Landseer's work helped construct a vision of Scotland that served specific interests. Editor: I never thought about landscape paintings in that way before. Thanks for shedding light on that. Curator: My pleasure, it gives one much to consider.
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Landseer was best known as a painter of dramatic or sentimental animal pictures, though he also painted many small landscape sketches such as this. These appear to have been created for his own pleasure, as they were not exhibited, nor were they studies for his larger pictures. Most represented scenes from the Scottish Highlands. This view suggests a fresh and personal view of nature, but one informed by the Sublime landscape painting of the previous decades in showing a scene of still and barren grandeur as the source of awe. Gallery label, September 2004
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