Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Research Point - Different artists' depictions of landscape

I have started by looking at Claude Lorrain (1604-1682).  He was a landscape artist at a time when landscape was not seen to be a subject in its own right, and also there was no market for paintings whose subjects were merely landscapes.
Some of his landscape paintings have small scale details in them, such as figures.  These seem only to serve as giving the painting a sense of scale and don't seem as important as the grand landscapes that surround them.
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Pastoral Landscape (3) - Claude Lorrain (Gellee) - www.claudelorrain.org  Pastoral landscape



Another artist I looked at is Albrecht Durer (1471-1528).
These are two of his very different depictions of landscapes.
Castle Court (Innsbruck) - Albrecht Durer - www.albrecht-durer.org  Castle Court (Innsbruck)


Pond in the Woods - Albrecht Durer - www.albrecht-durer.org Pond In The Woods

These are two impressionist paintings by Camille Pissarro.
File:Pissarro lordship.jpg  Lordship Lane Station   Jallais Hill at Pontoise (1867)


This is an industrial landscape by LS Lowry.  A riverbank (1947) 


And, this is something completely different.  A painting by Australian artist Fred Williams (1927-1982)
Landscape with Goose - Fred Williams Paintings Landscape with Goose 1974

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