Danish Golden Age and Greenspace

Prompt
Describe the Danish Golden Age of painting and explain how the artists and their work helped shape the perception of the Danish landscape.

The Danish Golden Age of painting started during the 19th century. It began with the school of painting called Skain. The landscape was often a large subject in the paintings of this time, and was portrayed in a positive light. The paintings reflected the happiness of this time, for example, summer was the common season to paint as opposed to the colder, darker months of the wintertime. The pieces tend to have sun, blue skies, and vast, green land, which is likely depicting the economic prosperity of this time.

In this painting, the landscape is the majority of this picture, whereas the buildings and people are smaller. The image is portraying the significance of landscape.

The painting below portrays the vast greenspace and blue skies. The people in the photo are enjoying the nature that they are within.

In the next photo, a slightly different approach is used. An interior is painted, rather than the exterior. Although people are indoors, you can see the blue skies and greenery outside of the window.

This photo exposes the issues of gender roles, but there is still and emphasis on landscape.The water and the sand take up the majority of the photo, and a lot of detail is put into the organic landscape.

The final photo is a painting of the artist himself, and his wife. They are gazing out into the ocean, appreciating the nature around them. The moon is shining bright, and the landscape is still a large part of the painting.