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This is a beautiful picture, very painterly in the style of some painter whose name I can't recall just now. It might be Fred McCubbin, but maybe I mean some other bloke entirely. It's a nice landscape in the approved landscape style, but the fire elevates it into a wonderful drama. The two tiny figures are pinned against the frame (one is almost toppling out of it), and the tree is seen just one critical instant before it is consumed. Suspense, drama, danger ... and all hiding in plain sight in an ordinary landscape. It's wonderful. 9. Thank you. |