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Originally Posted by Sharon Knettell
Allan,
There is movement, there is life, there is color. That elegant brushwork! My favorite of yours! I am SO HAPPY for you! It is a real triumph.
It is a good thing the wine was finished AFTER the painting was done!
Actually, there was another famous Dane who was not really a bundle of laughs, Hamlet brooding in Elsinore.
But then again there was that very funny pianist, Victor Borge.
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Thank you Sharon,
Shakespeare had a vivid fantasy and Hamlet probably never were on the castle Kronborg. The paintings are made by a Golden Age painter named Eckersberg who belonged to the generation just before the impressionists.
When I was younger I could never understand how those painters could paint such realistic light. But now I know : values.
Linda, Beth, Richard and Marina thank you for your support.
Allan