Neil Welliver's Brook on Ledge is a representational landscape that plays with
reflections in pools of water to complicate the image, while George McNeil's Landscape Abstraction # 2 is a kaleidoscope of colors and forms, suggesting rather than representing the landscape.
Its unseemly reputation dates back at least to ancient Greek mythology, in which the handsome hunter Narcissus (who undoubtedly would be gloating over his present - day fame) discovered his own
reflection in a pool of water and fell in love with it.
Not exact matches
The smaller depressions at their edges, also full
of water, catch the
reflections of overhanging leaves, and the green mingles with the gray
of their silt
in such a way that they often look like
pools of jade.
A natural
pool set
in a fold
in steep side
of the Malvern Hills with azure
waters that offers a mesmerising
reflections of the hills!
For the LVMH site - specific installation, he created a space where viewers are enveloped
in light and their own mirrored, dreamy
reflections, set beside a
pool of water on the building's lower level, or grotto, as they call it.
«My mother... would always point things out: the colours
of shadows, the way
water moves, how changes
in the shape
of a cloud are responsible for different colours
in the sea, the dapples and
reflections that come up from
pools inside caves.»