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the myth, the reality, the film
There’s an ancient myth that the light in Holland is different from anywhere else, but it has never been put to the test. It’s the legendary light we see in paintings. The German artist Joseph Beuys, however, says that it lost its unique radiance in the 1950s,...
location – our baseline
Joseph Beuys argued that the light in Holland lost its unique brightness as a result of land reclamation in the Zuyder Zee in the 1950s. The makers of Dutch Light established a baseline on the dike linking the villages of Marken and Monnickendam, from which to observe...
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Dutch Light on Vimeo – Video on Demand
Watch Dutch Light on Vimeo LOOKING AS A NEW EXPERIENCE‘Dutch Light is a documentary about the light in Holland. Is it unique, as people say, or is that simply a myth? It’s about the light celebrated in paintings – in landscapes by Jan van Goyen and Jacob van Ruisdael,...