The Swimming Hole
by Elizabeth Winter
Title
The Swimming Hole
Artist
Elizabeth Winter
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
A swimming hole is a place in a river, stream, creek, spring, or similar natural body of water, which is large enough and deep enough for a person to swim in. Common usage usually refers to fresh, moving water and thus not to oceans or lakes.
There are still countless natural swimming places that meet this definition and many are still used. Efforts in recent years to clean up such bodies of water have actually resulted in cleaner water in many rivers and creeks and healthier natural places to swim.
In Europe, as the nineteenth century dawned, a new era of contemporary artists were rediscovering the appeal of the swimming hole. The waterfall, surrounded by trees and mountains, was now regarded as the quintessence of beauty. William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas de Quincey spent much time bathing in the mountain pools of the Lake District. The study and search for the ‘picturesque’ and ‘sublime’ – an almost scientific measure of loveliness and proportion in the landscape – had reached epidemic proportions. The fashionable tours of Provence or Tuscany were replaced by trips to the valleys of Wales, and the dales of the UK's Cumbria and Yorkshire, as Turner and Constable painted a prodigious flow of falls, tarns and ponds.
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October 14th, 2015
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Comments (16)
Miroslava Jurcik
Absolutely love the tone and colours and the little duck which creates this amazing mood !! l/f
DJ MacIsaac
Everything is so lovely here Elizabeth! Looks like such a peaceful place... such a beautiful composition 😊lf
Meg Rousher
Beautiful capture Elizabeth, I'd love to sit there a while and see what passes by ...l/f
Nancy Kane Chapman
I mistakenly put Geraldine instead of Elizabeth. Such is my typing and ....mind!! Oops!