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Stumbling across an echo of a painting

 
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Topic starter October 17, 2024 1:56 pm  

Have you ever had your attention snagged by a random scene, and the reason turns out to be that the scene echoes a famous painting?

I had one of these back in June. I was wandering in Agassiz Dunes Scientific and Natural Area (western Minnesota), and came across a circle of small bur oaks.  Something about it compelled attention, and I spent a while shooting it from different angles, and thinking about returning there to capture it in different lighting.

The Dancers

It wasn't until I was looking at the images from that trip the next day that I figured out what had caught me.  The circle of gesticulating trees, some at crazy angles, was echoing the Matisse painting(s) The Dance.  Now I want to go back there even more...

Has anybody else had an experience like this?

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