#fog warning

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The Fog Warning, by Winslow Homer 1885

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Fog Warning [Skill Card]

"Each time you place a Fog Counter(s) on a monster(s), give it an additional Fog Counter."

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Winslow Homer, Fog Warning (1885) // Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses” (1833)

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Weather Update: Very dense fog, moderate rain likely in these states for next 3 days. Read IMD's forecast here

The India Meteorological Department has predicted dense fog over parts of northwest and adjoining central India during the next three days. Apart from this, according to the latest bulletin of IMD, there may be rain in Tamil Nadu also moderate rainfall From 30 December to 1 January 2024. According to the weather office, dense fog conditions have been predicted in the morning hours over isolated…

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MWW Artwork of the Day (10/18/15) Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910) Fog Warning, Halibut Fishing (1885) Oil on canvas, 76.8 x 123.2 cm. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Winslow Homer made his reputation in the 1860s with images of the Union troops during the Civil War and of the returning veterans afterward. In the late 1860s and 1870s he turned to lighter subject matter and found an equally enthusiastic audience for his paintings of healthy, handsome children playing in the country or at the seashore, and of adults enjoying leisure time pursuits. However, perhaps feeling the need for greater seriousness in his art, Homer spent 1881-82 in Cullercoats, England. Both a fishing village and an artists' colony, Cullercoats provided Homer with new, more profound themes: the arduous lives of fishermen and their families. Shortly after returning to the United States late in 1882, he settled in Prout's Neck, Maine, similarly both a fishing community and in summer a pleasant resort, where he painted the local population and their work. Fog Warning is one of three paintings he produced at Prout's Neck in 1885 describing the lives of the North Atlantic fishermen.

Like many of his 1870s images featuring farm children, "Fog Warning" is a story-telling picture. However, its story is disturbing rather than charming. As is indicated by the halibut in his dory, the fisherman in this picture has been successful. But the hardest task of the day, the return to the main ship, is still ahead of him. He turns to look at the horizon, measuring the distance to the mother ship, and to safety. The seas are choppy, and the dory rocks high on the waves, making it clear that the journey home will require considerable physical effort. But more threatening is the approaching fog bank, whose streamers echo -- even mock-the fisherman's profile. Contemporary descriptions of the fishing industry in New England make clear that the protagonist's plight-the danger of losing sight of his vessel -- was an all-too-familiar one.

The dramatic tension of "Fog Warning" is all the greater because Homer does not specify the fisherman's fate. However, Homer's "Lost on the Grand Banks," another painting in the series, shows that the fishermen's peril was a deadly one. An account from the 1876 history The Fisheries of Gloucester of the insidious horrors to which the fishermen were prey could well have served as a description of "Fog Warning": "His frail boat rides like a shell upon the surface of the sea...a moment of carelessness or inattention, or a slight miscalculation, may cost him his life. And a greater foe than carelessness lies in wait for its prey. The stealthy fog enwraps him in its folds, blinds his vision, cuts off all marks to guide his course, and leaves him afloat in a measureless void."  (Adapted from Davis, et al., "MFA Highlights: American Painting," Boston, 2003)

Winslow Homer is one of the featured artists in the MWW exhibit/gallery: * Americana IV: Democratic Vistas - Thomas Eakins & Winslow Homer

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Interview with Production designer Jeanette Andriulli

Today’s post was part of a month long series celebrating and investigating women creating horror, past and present as part of the international Women in Horror Month celebration. You can see all of the great events by checking out womeninhorrormonth.com

Me and Myself – Jeanette Andriulli

Yep, I’m interviewing myself today. I had an actual separate human being lined up to interview, but…

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Winslow Homer, The Fog Warning, 1885