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2 unusual facts about Landscape art


LeConte Stewart

LeConte Stewart (April 15, 1891 – June 6, 1990) was a Mormon artist primarily known for his landscapes of rural Utah.

Tang Dynasty art

Beginning in the Tang Dynasty, the primary subject matter of Chinese painting was the landscape, known as shanshui (mountain-water) painting.


Aleksander Kotsis

Aleksander Kotsis - born 1836 in Ludwinów (now one of parts of Kraków), died 1877 in Podgórze (also a part of Kraków now)- was a Polish painter renowned for his landscapes, portraits and genre depictions of contemporary rustic scenes.

Aniela Cukier

Her landscapes with views of Kazimierz Dolny, Wisniow, and Puck dominated her output and became popular, with some translated to woodcuts.

Copley Fielding

Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding (November 22, 1787 – March 3, 1855), commonly called Copley Fielding, was an English painter born in Sowerby, near Halifax and famous for his watercolour landscapes.

Decorative arts

In China both approaches had co-existed for many centuries: ink and wash painting, mostly of landscapes, was to a large extent produced by and for the scholar-bureaucrats or "literati", and was intended as an expression of the artist's imagination above all, while other major fields of art, including the very important Chinese ceramics produced in effectively industrial conditions, were produced according to a completely different set of artistic values.

Frans de Momper

Frans de Momper (17 October 1603-between 1660 and 1661), a Flemish landscape painter, who was a native of Antwerp, is inscribed in the ' Liggere' of the Guild of St. Luke in that city in 1629-30.

George Inness

Barbizon landscapes were noted for their looser brushwork, darker palette, and emphasis on mood.

Giovanni Battista Viola

Giulio Mancini commented in his writings that Viola was well respected for his landscape canvases, which were annotated as present in the collections of Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini, Giustiniani, Cardinal Mazarin, and the Pamphilj.

James Francis Danby

James Francis Danby, an English landscape painter, the son of Francis Danby, A.R.A., was born at Bristol in 1816.

Karl Ludwig Frommel

Karl Ludwig Frommel (29 April 1789 – 6 February 1863) was a German landscape painter and engraver, born at Birkenfeld.

Painting with Paulson

The series teaches a variety of techniques, primarily with landscapes, using mixed oil and acrylic paints.

Robert Antoine Pinchon

Robert Antoine Pinchon (July 1, 1886, Rouen – January 9, 1943, Bois-Guillaume) was a French Post-Impressionist landscape painter of the Rouen School (l'École de Rouen) who was born and spent most of his life in France.

San Francisco Art Association

SFAA was founded on March 28, 1871, by a group of some 23–30 artists, primarily landscape artists led by Virgil Macey Williams, with two goals: the forming of an art library, the promotion of art exhibitions, and the eventual establishment of an art school.

Sketchbook

John Constable (English 1776–1837) believed in the importance of working from life and based his paintings on sketches and drawings of the landscape.

Veduta

This genre of landscape originated in Flanders, where artists such as Paul Brill painted vedute as early as the 16th century.

Wouterus Verschuur

Wouterus Verschuur (11 June 1812 – 4 July 1874) was a Dutch painter of animal subjects – mainly horses – and of landscapes.


see also

Julian H. Scaff

His landscape art/design projects have included "Water, Trees, Path, Cranes" in Enschede, Netherlands, and "Dazzled Windscape," a proposal for making the controversial Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts more environmentally and culturally friendly.

Kilmartin Glen

In 2007, Kilmartin Glen was the setting for Half Life, a piece of landscape art and performance created by the Scottish theatre company NVA in collaboration with the National Theatre of Scotland.

Russell Drysdale

Australian art scholar and gallery director Ron Radford argues that towards the end of World War II, Drysdale triggered "'a general reddening' of Australian landscape art".