lorax888: This painting has been stolen several times ,,,,, usualy you are a man of many words , why so few today? The painting is great and saids a lot on its own. You did not answer the question of why.
Dennis
It's an impressionist masterpiece. Most Impressionists had trouble conveying legitimate emotion in their work. This painting expresses despair in a way that seems genuine to me without falling into the realm of melodrama like so many other impressionist paintings.
Yes, the emotion is over the top. But the painting is for the most part an abstract and conveys the landscape almost as a dream-scape. When we're in the midst of a dream, the melodrama doesn't seem so contrived. Same with this painting.
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