Fra Orrevandet / Frøylandsvand 

Curator: Standing before us is Kitty Lange Kielland's captivating painting entitled "Fra Orrevandet / Frøylandsvand". The oil on canvas beautifully captures a landscape scene, drawing us into its serene embrace. What’s your initial take on it? Editor: It whispers tranquility, doesn’t it? The soft light, the muted colors… it feels almost like a memory, a place half-remembered in a dream. There's a subtle melancholy to it. Curator: Precisely. Kielland had a knack for translating emotion onto the canvas. Notice how she utilizes the horizon line, placing it quite high to emphasize the breadth of the landscape. The verticality of the reeds is so simple, yet creates a dynamic push and pull. Editor: Absolutely. And those brushstrokes! So free, almost impressionistic. It's less about exact representation and more about capturing the feeling of being in that place. What really stands out is her treatment of light, or rather, her subtle recognition of the relative value contrast of things. I'm intrigued, but not wholly compelled. What details might we be missing? Curator: Well, it's key to understand her work within the context of plein-air painting. The canvas is an attempt to catch and transpose the feeling, immediacy, and optical character of that experience for the painter and subsequent viewer. This work can be regarded as very avant-garde from such perspective. It goes on capturing that sensation, in my view, much after we step away from it as its observers. Editor: The way you describe it opens new gateways in me as an artist. Now that you point it out, I can see how that feeling is not easily conveyed otherwise. You're right: its as though one must stay to receive the image—rather than simply look at it. Thanks for that! Curator: It's these quiet landscapes, devoid of grand narratives, that often speak the loudest. They beckon us to pause, to breathe, to reconnect with nature's unadorned beauty. Editor: True, and perhaps, more profoundly, they reconnect us with ourselves. Thank you, Kitty Lange Kielland. And you! Curator: Indeed. A very welcome interlude into this singular experience, don’t you agree?