Art History One Travelers among Mountains and Streams is comprised of several design elements. Form‚ leading lines‚ and shape. These design elements move the eye throughout the painting in a continuous interaction between the elements. Each section is well balanced and rich in content. The large mountain in the foreground sets the foundation for the painting by serving as a barrier‚ keeping the viewers eyes from leaving the page. The area showing the travelers moving in the stream sets a sense of motion
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painter‚ b. Suffolk. Constable and Turner were the leading figures in English landscape painting of the 19th cent. Constable became famous for his landscapes of Suffolk‚ Hampstead‚ Salisbury‚ and Brighton. The son of a prosperous miller‚ he showed artistic talent while very young but did not devote himself to art until he was 23‚ when he went to London to study at the Royal Academy. Influenced by the 17th-century landscape painters Ruisdael and Claude Lorrain‚ his poetic approach to nature paralleled
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through Wood‚ with Boy Resting and Dog”‚ 1747 was a typical “genre painting”‚ obviously influenced by Ruisdael. In 1750 he moved to Ipswich where his professional career began in earnest. He executed a great many small-sized portraits as well as landscapes of a decorative nature. In 1759 he moved to Bath. There he became a much sought-after and fashionable artist‚ portraying the aristocracy. In the manner of Van Duck‚ he turned to full-length‚ life-size portraits. Gainsborough is famous for the elegance
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But it was stated in R.A No. 9053‚ the Philippine Landscape Architecture Act of 2000‚ that a landscape architect also has the credibility on urban design as part of the scope of the practice of the profession. Being a versatile profession‚ an RLA could also become an urban designer as long as he/she have long been practicing the services whether it is general or specialized and he/she had consistently worked with a registered and licensed landscape architect(RLLA). But to best achieve the profession
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their land more honestly."1 The Group of Seven was a group of landscape painters who took up the challenge and transformed the misleading and stereotyped ways that Canada and its people were portrayed in. The seven founding artists of the famous Group were: Lawren S. Harris‚ J.E.H. MacDonald‚ Arthur Lismer‚ Frederick Varley‚ Frank Johnston‚ Franklin Carmichael and A.Y. Jackson. Before the Group of Seven emerged from Toronto‚ Canadian landscape painting often imitated European styles and themes. The Group
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The mythological story of Icarus stemmed from ancient stories and has been at the center of many poems. “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus‚” a painting by Pieter Brueghel‚ serves as the inspiration for two poets‚ W.H. Auden and William Williams. Although the two poems are written about the same painting‚ each poet uses different and similar literary devices to describe their own interpretation of Icarus. Both poems share the same rhetorical devices to express the picture of Icarus’ fall. Enjambment
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Wang Jian and Rembrandt van Rijn Ink strokes on landscapes between the Eastern and Western Worlds Outline Thesis Statement As one of China’s most well-known artists‚ Wang Jian (born in Taicang in the Jiangsu province 1598-1677) established a unique style of East Asian artwork compared to that of Rembrandt van Rijn showing a different use of strokes from the Western World. The artistic styles of the East Asian cultures can be distinguished by the brush strokes and influences Shan Shui (“mountain-
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with high atmospheric visibility and tranquil weather. In pessimistic or troubled times visibility in paintings was generally poor‚ with much fog‚ mist‚ or haze. Topics 1. Can you tell if an artist has painted the sky from Nature? 2. Should landscape artists be constrained by Nature? 3. Has religion had a positive (negative) influence on sky painting? 4. Are the themes of sky painting (haze‚ storm‚ clear) affected by the times the artist lives in? 5. Are the themes of sky painting (haze
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etc. In 1853‚ he returned to Germany to study in Dusseldorf‚ where he developed his abilities by painting Mountain landscapes. Landscape paintings became popular in the 19th century as an independent category. This genre was also the focus of many other popular painters‚ and was so stirring that they actually increased tourism in Europe and America. Of all the great American landscape paintings‚ few were as bulging and outstanding as those that were painted by Albert Bierstadt. In 1857‚ he came back
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Oil on Canvas 1772 Claude Joseph Vernet French 1714-1779 Patron’s Permanent Fund and Chester Dale Fund 2000.221 Claude Joseph Vernet was one of the most artistic French landscape and marine painters in Europe during the seventeenth century. Throughout his successful career‚ Vernet made sketching trips within Rome and along the Mediterranean coast capturing scenes that reflect his most famous works of art (National Gallery of Art‚ 2005). During the age of Enlightenment‚ he received many
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