Friday, March 07, 2008
 Contrary to still life paintings and portraits, landscape paintings
never fail to excite people. We normally strike an emotional connection
with landscape paintings as more often than not they arouse nostalgic
feelings. Somewhere down memory lane we identify some of our own visual
experiences with the landscape paintings we see.
Landscape paintings have been part of many cultures and landscape artists have enjoyed a place of pride in traditions of countries like Britain, Japan, France, and Holland,
Paintings of landscape artists are more suited to brighten up walls. The
originals are pretty expensive and the only way that you can adorn your
walls with the paintings of great landscape artists like Camille Pissaro,
John Constable, or Claude Monet is by buying their reproductions.
Before the time of the Impressionists landscape artists painted from
memory or drawings, from consigns of their studios. Monet and Renoir
were the first to move out in the open to get inspiration from Nature to
paint and had to suffer the ridicule of the masters.
Hiroshige (1797-1858) and Hokusai (1760-1849) of Japan painted wild
oceans, forests and mountain ranges in bright colors and left a great
impression on the landscape artists of 19th Century Europe. The later
Twentieth Century saw the emergence of other forms of art in the shape
of Surrealism, Cubism and Abstract Expressionism that drove the
landscape artist into the sidelines.
Despite the current trend of video art and installations, the works of
the landscape artist are still fancied by the general public because of
their inherent quality of bringing the Nature within your home.
Landscape artists have been known to go to great lengths to paint
pictures as realistically as they possible. In an effort to capture the
same mountain in different weather conditions, the landscape artist,
Paul Cezanne, painted the same mountain, Montagne Sainte Victoire, near
his home in Aix-en-Provence, France, nearly eighty times. Monet depicted
water by sitting in a rowing boat on the river.
As with mountains, so with sky and water, and landscape artists painted
the sky and water as frequently as they did the mountains. The first
European landscape artists to paint the sea were the Dutch painters
Vermeer (1632-1675), and Rembrandt (1606-1669).
The blurring of the sea and the horizon that the English landscape
artist, JMW Turner used in his paintings of stormy skies and seascapes
gave the idea of abstract painting to the future artists.
Winslow Homer and Andrew Wyeth, both American landscape artists,
captured light on water beautifully and earned accolades for their
mastery on painting this aspect nature.
by Kenneth Scott |
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How to Create a Beautiful Landscape Painting |
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A landscape painting should make you feel like you are in a deep space. When viewing it you should feel as though you were right inside the painting...(read
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Landscape Painting Tips For Oil Painters |
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There is something quite magical
about painting outdoors. I feel comfortably secluded with nature having an
almost spiritual connection when I paint a landscape...(read
more) |
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Introduction to Oil Painting Techniques |
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Oil paint is an amazing
versatile medium. It can be applied in a thick buttery fashion or thinned down
to a watery consistency...(read
more) |
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Oil
Painting Lessons - Tips on Color Mixing and Color Theory |
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When I first began painting some
10 years ago, I recall how intimidating it all seemed...(read
more) |
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Oil
Painting Lesson - An Introduction To Oil Painting Supports
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An oil painting support is any
surface that oil paint can be applied to. There are a variety of different
surfaces that artists use to paint on...(read
more) |
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Oil
Painting Lesson - Introduction To Oil Painting Mediums |
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Oil painting is a wonderful medium all on its
own, but there are modifiers that you can add to the oil paint that can change
its behavior...(read
more) |
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Oil
Painting Lesson - Introduction To Oil Painting Fundamentals |
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To accurately convey your feelings about the
subject you are painting, you should learn and understand the fundamentals of
oil painting like drawing...(read
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Caring for your Oil Painting |
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Paintings and their frames are made of several
different materials. ...(read
more) |
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Rare
Mozart Portrait Discovered |
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A portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that lay
unidentified for more than 200 years has been proved to be authentic, according
to an expert on the composer...(read
more) |
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The
History of American Painters |
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Painting is one of the most interesting forms
of art. It depicts life in vivid colors and speaks so much about oneself...(read
more) |
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Thousands of Years of Australian Art |
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Oil painting is a method of drawing the
pictures using various oil paints available...(read
more) |
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All
About Oil Painting Tips |
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Oil painting is a method of drawing the
pictures using various oil paints available...(read
more) |
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Different Styles and Forms to Abstract Art |
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Abstract art is known as art that is not an accurate
representation of a form or object...
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more) |
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Top 5
Interior Decorating and Art Trends For 2008 |
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Pamela Smith, one of the top experts in the
quickly rising field of interior redesign, discusses having the proper
perspective on trends (read
more) |
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Floral Paintings |
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Floral paintings make wonderful gifts for any occasion.
Floral art is highly
collectable...
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Self
Portraits |
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It is very difficult to know about oneself, but it is not
simple to paint oneself either." The
Vincent van Gogh
From about 1885 in the course of 1890...
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An artist is an individual... your art vision is your own! |
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What you paint marks you out as an independent
thinker. Your drawings and paintings show your reactions to what you see
and feel...
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi Etchings |
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SALEM, OR - A
small exhibition of prints by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, an
18th-century Italian etcher and archaeologist...
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Figuratively Speaking: A Group Exhibition |
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The human figure has been the fundamental muse
for as long as people have been creating art...
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Duke Approves Expansion Plan |
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On Saturday, the Duke University Board
of Trustees approved a master-plan design, which expands its campus
alongside two of its most prominent landmarks...
(read more) |
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