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BECAUSE CHRISTMAS IS TRADITIONALLY A WINTER WON
DERLAND, paintings such as “Winter Scene" by the Flemish
artist Hendrik Avercamp seem to capture the mood and reflect
the spirit of the holiday season. Avercamp devoted his talents
to depicting the winter landscapes of Holland. This painting, which
Is in the Rijks Museum, Amsterdam, appears in the Grolier Book
of Art, a 10-volume encyclopedia.
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ARTISTK VIEWS REfLECT 'WINTER WONDERLAND
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In Bethlehem, it’s the rainy
season.
In Hawaii, Santa Claus might
arrive by boat, and Christmas
could be celebrated on a sunny
beach.
In Australia, Christ
mas is a time for picnicking—
it's summer "down under."
Even in Northern lands, De
ember 25th does not always
provide the pleasures of a
"white Christmas."
In spite of the varying climes
where Christmas is observed,
and in spite of the frequent
shortage of ice and snow at the
appropriate time, the tradi
tional image of Christmas is
and probably always will be,
a wintry, snowy landscape-
celebrated in song and story,
pictured in countless paintings.
The countryside under a
blanket of snow, the hillside
drifted deep in white, the trees
bent down with snow or crystal-
bright with ice, the lakes, rivers
and streams gleaming in ice-
covered magnificence--t he se
are favorite themes in holiday
lore, and favorite dreams for
all those who spend Christmas
cozily among the conveniences
of modern centrally-heated
buildings and modern trans
portation.
The "winter wonderland" of
ice and snow has been a fre
quent source of inspiration for
artists.
There’s a wealth of
winter landscape paintings that,
although not directly associated
with Christmas, seem to set the
mood and reflect the spirit of
the season.
In 16th and 17th century Hol
land, for instance, a whole tra
dition of landscape painting was
devoted solely to depicting win
ter scenes--somewhat unusual
since the winter weather of
Holland is not especially cold.
For admirers of art and white
Christmases alike, one of the
winter landscape, Avercamp’s
paintings capture to perfection
both the beauties and pleasures
of winter. Bare branches of
trees etch their patterns against
expanses of ice, in contrast
with the cozy cottages and, on
the ice, the merry skaters, for
an ideal blending of the cold
weather and warm spirit of a
winter holiday.
Of Avercamp’s personal his
tory, little is known. Records
show that he was baptized in
Amsterdam in January 1585,
and buried at Kampen in 1634.
His painting was influenced by
the Flemish landscape tradition
and particularly by Pieter
Bruegel the Elder--a painter
whose fascination with the win
ter scene did much to shape
his landscape style.
The snow-covered hillsides
seen in the work of the elder
Pieter Bruegel contrast
strangely with the flat, icy ter
rain of his native Holland. The
explanation is to be found in
travels which took him to
mountainous lands.
Bruegel became a master in
the Antwerp painter’s guild in
1551, and shortly afterward
journeyed to France and Italy,
says the Grolier Book of Art.
In 1554 he returned from
Rome to the Netherlands, re
crossing the Alps on his way.
The mountains and scenery of
Italy made an immense in
pression on him, as reflected
in the drawings he made at the
time.
More than the "contempor
ary" Italian art, those moun
tainous vistas influenced his
landscape style--andultimately
inspired Avercamp and other
Flemish painters of the ever
wonderful scene.
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600 years ago, »he "fashion
babies" in later years became
ambassadors for French styles.
In the early American Colo
nies, for instance, the arrival
of a group of "fashion babies”
from France was greeted with
great excitement. For payment
of an admission fee, Colonial
women could see the dolls dis
played, and observe the newest
fashions, in miniature.
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