I was reading his Wikipedia page and it seems like he was heavily criticised by critics for the use of camera obscura because he didn't have skills to do perspectives.

Some questioned whether paintings made with this technique could be considered paintings at all.

Imagine if we taught these Victorian-era critics about "AI artists," lol.

Isn't this a level in Bloodborne or something?

For real though, amazing colors and contrast. I was just out enjoying the harvest supermoon tonight and these really capture the same magic.

His skies really capture that feeling of light being retained in the atmosphere.

Thanks for introducing me to this artist!

Holy smokes.

I've always enjoyed these. His work is quite common across the North of England where I live (and also where he lived for much of his life) - a lot of municipal galleries have one or more in their collections. Leeds art gallery has loads of them. I was never sure how well known his work was outside of the area - so great to see them on here.

Oh my gosh, this is gorgeous. I'm not someone who is actively into art, so I tend to only discover artists that I like through serendipity like this. For that reason, thank you for this post.

OP, please keep going. This series is really cool. I'm learning a lot!

And still he had time to conceive 15 kids (during the day, I suppose).

My new 2snd favorite painter now. Thanks

I found my new wallpaper. Thank you.

These are really good

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