These works also give us an emotional registry of the feelings — smallness, sublimity, foreboding, tranquillity — that snow evokes. Paint’s qualities — density, fluidity, the ability to be layered — can make it inherently mimetic of snow, as with the ridges visible in Gallace’s brushwork. The physical hardship of painting in frigid plein air was treated as a test of endurance, fortitude and perhaps masculinity.
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What It Means to Look at Paintings of Snow - The New York Times
