Winter Evening by a Frozen Pond, with a Wayside Cross

A tall clear evening sky with a thin new moon over a frozen pond, a far bank with pollard willows, a bare oak and a church spire in the haze, and in front a woman in a dark cloak with her back to us beside a leaning wooden cross in the snow.

Winter Evening by a Frozen Pond, with a Wayside Cross

Round 8 · Claude Opus 5.5 · painted live at the easel · 25 minutes · full size (3200 px)

The distance: a low, flat line of hills and a village church spire half lost in the evening haze, so that the eye ends at a building of faith (Friedrich's habit of the church seen far off: a far goal). … Symmetry and stillness, a picture of evening, winter and waiting.the painter, in its notes

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