Compare And Contrast Mountain Market Clear Mist
Nature has been part of our lives and can be seen every day. No matter where we are nature is present; something we can admire with our eyes, something we can call beauty. Indeed, when it comes to visual art, such as paintings, many artists from around the world are influenced by its naturalistic value. Trying to capture and create their interpretation of nature. Even though all paintings capture the essence and artistic value of nature, they are often interpreted based on the art style or technique from different parts of the world (Japan and China to be more precise). Mountain Market, Clear Mist and Willows and Bridge is a great example of this statement. While both artworks of neighboring country share naturalistic values, they are visually
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With its dimension of 24.8 x 21.3 cm (about a diameter of a soccer ball); this small size painting is able to convey depths of the overall landscape with every brush stroke and ink. Looking at the landscape painting up close, it is noticeable that Xia Gui perfected and pays attention to small details of the landscape. For example, notice the leaves of each tree are given a quick jab from the brush (they form a bush-like structure for each branch and have open gaps) and notice the forest hills are given an axe-cut stroke to depict its rocky and/or slope-like structure. Seeing the entire landscape through a birds eye view, Xia Gui utilizes “three distances” to divide parts of the landscape through spaces. Here, streams of water acts as the foreground, followed by a forested hill (middle ground), and finally a mountain as the background. The height of the forested hill and the mist play a fundamental role in spacing distances. Notice how height separates the foreground from the middle ground while the mist separates the middle ground from the background through blank-like spaces. Finally, Xia Gui also uses atmospheric perspective as the mountains and trees in the landscape are given a slight shade of ink rather than a bold shade of ink (the further objects, the lighter the shade) to show visibility through the human eye based on distances or
With its dimension of 24.8 x 21.3 cm (about a diameter of a soccer ball); this small size painting is able to convey depths of the overall landscape with every brush stroke and ink. Looking at the landscape painting up close, it is noticeable that Xia Gui perfected and pays attention to small details of the landscape. For example, notice the leaves of each tree are given a quick jab from the brush (they form a bush-like structure for each branch and have open gaps) and notice the forest hills are given an axe-cut stroke to depict its rocky and/or slope-like structure. Seeing the entire landscape through a birds eye view, Xia Gui utilizes “three distances” to divide parts of the landscape through spaces. Here, streams of water acts as the foreground, followed by a forested hill (middle ground), and finally a mountain as the background. The height of the forested hill and the mist play a fundamental role in spacing distances. Notice how height separates the foreground from the middle ground while the mist separates the middle ground from the background through blank-like spaces. Finally, Xia Gui also uses atmospheric perspective as the mountains and trees in the landscape are given a slight shade of ink rather than a bold shade of ink (the further objects, the lighter the shade) to show visibility through the human eye based on distances or