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Shunpike n.- a side road taken to avoid turnpike tolls or traffic.
Pictured :
Boulevard in Winter, Isaac Levitan,1883
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Shunpike sounds like a name used in Harry Potter...
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)Isaac Ilyich Levitan (Russian: Исаа́к Ильи́ч Левита́н; August 30, 1860 August 4 [O.S. July 22] 1900) was a classical Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape."
The landscape of mood
Levitan's work was a profound response to the lyrical charm of the Russian landscape. Levitan did not paint urban landscapes; with the exception of the View of Simonov Monastery (whereabouts unknown), mentioned by Nesterov, the city of Moscow appears only in the painting Illumination of the Kremlin. During the late 1870s he often worked in the vicinity of Moscow, and created the special variant of the "landscape of mood", in which the shape and condition of nature are spiritualized, and become carriers of conditions of the human soul (Autumn day. Sokolniki, 1879). During work in Ostankino, he painted fragments of the mansions house and park, but he was most fond of poetic places in the forest or modest countryside. Characteristic of his work is a hushed and nearly melancholic reverie amidst pastoral landscapes largely devoid of human presence. Fine examples of these qualities include The Vladimirka Road, 1892 Evening Bells, 1892, and Eternal Rest, 1894, all in the Tretyakov Gallery. Though his late work displayed familiarity with Impressionism, his palette was generally muted, and his tendencies were more naturalistic and poetic than optical or scientific.
more at link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Levitan
cwydro
(51,308 posts)And the more I think about it, I think there was a character with the name Shunpike in Harry Potter...
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)"Isn't he the one who claimed he was going to become Minister for Magic when he was trying to chat up those veela?"
Ron Weasley explains Stan Shunpike[src]
Stanley "Stan" Shunpike (born c. 1973[1]) was a wizard and was the conductor and helper of the Knight Bus. In 1996, he was arrested and sent to Azkaban for being a Death Eater when he was overheard claiming to have inside information about the organisation, although in all likelihood, he was only fooling around. In 1997, he broke free from prison and joined the Death Eaters under the Imperius Curse. His fate after the war is unknown; he most likely awoke from the Curse following Lord Voldemort's ultimate defeat, like all the other Imperiused victims[2], and returned to his job.
more at link:
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Stanley_Shunpike
hay rick
(7,640 posts)Shunpike Rd. paralleled Main St. (Rt. 24) and ran through Chatham and Madison, NJ. Nice picture.