The vivid green-and-yellow coastscape
yesterday reminded me a lot of this design on a Badger Brewery glass I photographed a while back. It seems a classic example of Jay Appleton's "prospect-refuge theory" (see previously:
Landscapes in mind) - the idea that satisfying landscape images should contain a view ahead in the background (the prospect) and a safe place in the foreground (the refuge). In this case the prospect is the cliffscape, with possibilities further indicated by the signpost; and there are two refuges, the badger field and the folksy village. It is a very satisfying image.
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Ray
Very nice ... and very nicely observed :-)
ReplyDeleteAs an additional pleasure, the captcha password with which which Blogger just presented me as I left the last comment was "wangsman" ... presumably a habitual player of Mitchell and Webb's "Numberwang" :-)
ReplyDeleteThe design is very well-constructed, both as a psychologically appealing scene and as a fictitious but characteristic Dorset landscape. In fact it's very close to my own ideal coastscape, probably shaped by places like Freshwater Bay.
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