The first piece of artwork I’ve decided to write about is "Falling Landscape IV" by Evon Streetman and was created in 1994. It was roughly the same height as me‚ and was nearly 4 feet wide. It was a large piece‚ which was wonderful for exaggerating the features and details. The medium used was cibachrome‚ which is a positive-to-positive process used to reproduce film transparencies on photographic paper. I think "Falling Landscape IV" was the most beautiful piece in the entire museum‚ and I enjoyed
Premium Painting Art Oil painting
What has landscape architecture and industrialized society to learn from indigenous cultures and their symbiotic relationships with nature? “‘Despite nature’s many earlier warnings‚ the pollution and destruction of the natural environment has gone on‚ intensively and extensively‚ without awakening a sufficient reaction; it is only during the last century that any systematic effort has been made to determine what constitutes a balanced and self-renewing environment‚ containing all the ingredient’s
Premium Natural environment Landscape architecture Environment
Cole‚ a founder of The Hudson River School‚ can be considered one of the most famous American artists. The Hudson River School focused on creating landscapes of the continental United States in a pastoral setting in which humans were one with the their land. The Hudson River School artists accepted that the beauty and diversity of the American landscape was only possible through the divine grace of god. And while each of their individual piety varied the Hudson River School painters opinioned paralleled
Premium United States Romanticism
American people have been influenced by Europeans for centuries. Art has always been an important factor throughout history and has influenced how we think. The Hudson River School is a prime example of people’s love for art. Taking on characteristics of the Romanticism movement in Europe‚ the Hudson River school was the first painting based school in America. (2) With a strong sense of nationalism‚ artists painted beautiful scenes of American wilderness and desired to become independent of European
Premium United States Art Romanticism
nature is exemplified through Chinese landscape paintings and rock gardens of Japan. These works of art give an idealized representation of the balance and tranquility found in nature. Through these representations of nature people were able to step back and find peace even in an imperfect world. Japanese rock gardens were carefully constructed to display the beauty of nature in which the viewer is meant to discover the landscapes meaning. Chinese landscape painters of the Northern Song Dynasty sought
Premium China Japan Painting
Romanticism’s Effects on Landscape Art Romanticism was an attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature‚ painting‚ music‚ architecture‚ criticism‚ and historiography in Western civilization over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. Romanticism can be seen as a rejection of the precepts of order‚ calm‚ harmony‚ balance‚ idealization‚ and rationality that typified Classicism in general and late 18th-century - Neoclassicism in particular. It was
Premium Romanticism
Martin Weinsteins’ Sun Dogs is a beautiful art piece. It would bring your mind to ease looking at this piece and have you imagining that you are there. The art depicts a field of green nature‚ with a gorgeous view of two mountains with bodies of water in front of them‚and bright blue slightly clouded sky. It reminds me of something that can be seen in a country like Norway where it is full of greenery‚ vast mountains‚ and bodies of water. Imagine yourself standing in front of a large canvas and
Premium Painting Sun Modernism
leader in landscape painting during the first half of the nineteenth century. Cole painted many landscapes‚ but the one that drew me in the most was the Genesee Scenery. My first impression of the painting was that it was beautiful‚ but as I looked closer I saw visual cues within the color‚ form‚ depth‚ and movement. The deconstruction of Genesee Scenery will explain how the physiology on the eye helped me to see the four visual cues. Genesee Scenery‚ at first glance is a beautiful landscape painting
Premium Painting Western painting
Ruisdael’s painting‚ Wheatfields‚ depicts a Dutch rural panoramic landscape. The medium used is oil on canvas and the actual size of the composition is very large‚ which adds to the grandeur created through his techniques of depiction. Ruisdael painted Wheatfields in c. 1670 in the later years of his life. The organisation of Ruisdael’s pictorial space encourages the spectator to feel small. The mass of the rustic‚ realistic natural environment is encumbering‚ with the small figures of people and
Premium Painting Expressionism Color
exceptional artistic talent from his early age and entered the Royal Academy at fourteen. His landscape paintings made him popular regardless of a darker side to his paintings that were made big issues by critiques. He became a well-celebrated artist despite of the difficulties he came across in life. Even being born in family of a Garden barber‚ he became very famous for his works such seascape and landscape. His success seems very exceptional while we consider that he did not have enough schooling
Premium Painting History of painting Western painting