The Elbe in Rain
Johan Christian Dahl, a Norwegian painter who helped define Romantic landscape art, loved to capture the raw emotion of a storm. Here, he barely bothers with the ground, letting a massive, bruised sky dominate the view over the Elbe River. The loose, frantic brushstrokes make you feel the damp chill and the wind whipping through that lonely cluster of trees. It’s less a photograph of a place and more a snapshot of a feeling—pure Romantic moodiness.
- Technique
- Oil paint