Nature in Literature

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This paper examines the theme of nature as portrayed in Winslow's "The Fog Warning" and Lorrain's "Mill on a River." It discusses how these two artists portrayed nature and man's relationship to it.

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""Mill on a River," is indicative of this thesis. Men loading small boats alongside the river occupy the foreground. Behind the men trees rise up to dominant the middle ground while the mill itself and the sky above are splashed in the golden light of dusk. Lorrain was known as an artist who exemplified the ideal-landscape art form, one that seeks to present a view of nature more beautiful and harmonious than nature itself. The quality of that beauty is governed by classical concepts, and the landscape often contains classical ruins and pastoral figures in classical dress."

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