Nature in the Light of Art

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Art is without doubt a powerful agent in determining how nature appears to us. Andrew Forge describes seeing tree leaves in sunlight, and ‘thinking Pissarro’. ‘I am wrapped round by Impressionism and the leaves look like brush strokes’.¹ To Harold Osborne, once one has been impressed by Van Gogh’s painting of certain objects, ‘it is difficult ever again to see the objects uninfluenced by Van Gogh’s vision of them’.²