“The Red Roofs, Corner of a Village, Winter” Camille Pissarro (1877)

Inspired by lines in...

“Ode on a Grecian Urn” John Keats

Village

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty, – that is all”
Through the screen of bare branches, chimneys and sloping
roofs of a French village in a plethora of colors
give the impression of a beautiful idyllic place, the ideal.
The artist may have found another pathway to beauty
not through the detailed accuracy of sight
but through the languid lens of impression.