Comment on 22.7.1822
Dahl thinks it important that a painter has studied nature very carefully, but that he does not merely reproduce these neutral observations. Instead, he has to understand the spirit of nature, and Dahl even talks about the painting as a poem that the painter finds in nature.
This view contrasts with the “dry and stiff” way of painting that e.g. Götzloff, according to Dahl, tended to favour, cf. Bang, op. cit.
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