The Lifeboat Is Taken Through The Dunes

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The Lifeboat Is Taken Through The Dunes

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Eric Glaser

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Painting - Oil On Canvas

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"The Lifeboat is Taken through the Dunes"

Artist: Michael Peter Ancher (Danish, 1849-1927)

Title: The Lifeboat is Taken through the Dunes

Date: 1883

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: Height: 171 cm (67.3 in); Width: 221 cm (87 in)

Collection: National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

Michael Peter Ancher was a Danish realist artist. He is remembered above all for his paintings of fishermen and other scenes from the Danish fishing community in Skagen.

The low, dark winter skies and densely filled picture plane deepens the sense of intense concentration, of heroic grandeur. The painting's compositionThe waves on the bluish-black ocean seem to force their way up into the snow-covered dunes which echo the tumbling waves by lifting up the lifeboat, prefiguring the launch of the boat and how it will break through the heavy surf. Two intersecting diagonals lead the fishermen through the dunes and out towards the vessels in distress. This movement eventually takes the spectator’s gaze back to the starting point: the shouting fisherman, cropped as in a photographic snapshot, making an appeal to someone outside the picture. A tale of the heroic fishermen With this painting Michael Ancher continued his tale of the heroic fishermen of Skagen. An epic on a grand scale, the narrative opened with the question Will He Weather the Point, went on to a happy preliminary end, as it were, with A Crew is Rescued and was finally concluded in The Drowned Fisherman. A contemporary history painting Previously, history painting was a vehicle for the depiction of great and good deeds done by mythological heroes and men who made history. Common people only made an appearance as rank and file soldiers or in anonymous crowds. The works of Michael Ancher, however, represent the culmination of counteracting endeavours to place ordinary men as the main characters of contemporary history painting.

This is a Google Art Project image, thank you Google!

Text Credit: SMK

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Additional image editing by Eric Glaser

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