Sentences with phrase «english landscape tradition»

Acrylic & collage on canvas Martyn Brewster's abstract paintings are strongly linked to the English landscape tradition.

They appear to be Walker's heartfelt homage to the English landscape tradition — especially the work of John Constable — in which small, plein air paintings track moisture and ever - changing English skies over the cloud - piercing spire of Salisbury Cathedral.

Working within and against the omnipresent legacy of the English landscape tradition, she searches for quiet, often overlooked places with a particular type of beauty, and makes intimate oil paintings that at first appear archaic.

The book became notorious for Dewhurst's insistence that the English landscape tradition, especially the work of John Constable and J. M. W. Turner, was at the root of modern French painting.

Certainly there were cross-influences between the two, and the Americans looked at the work of the St Ives group as well as vice versa, but the roots of the Americans lay in European Symbolism and Expressionism, whereas the St Ives group were closer to the English landscape tradition, or, in Heron's case, to the school of Paris.

The long, horizontal format and muted palette, however, link his work to the English landscape tradition of Gainsborough, Constable and Turner.

Not exact matches

His room of double portraits, by contrast, spoke to that uniquely English 18th century genre, the «conversation piece», and more recent work of course to the landscape tradition exemplified by Turner and Constable.

«So Pasmore, in spite of his abortive pursuit of pure abstraction, joined the ranks of the British semi abstract painters, Lanyon, Hilton, Scott, Hodgkin, and others, who can not commit to a full hearted abstraction, but in their irresolution on the question offer succour to all those who hold on to that naturalistic spatial illusion, or hints of such, that keeps their work linked to the old English traditions of poeticised landscape reference»

Two major traditions emerged: English and French, both of which influenced landscape painters throughout Europe and North America, and had a huge impact on the art of the period.

The Norwich School remains an important historical element in the larger tradition of English landscape painting.

Unlike in France and Germany, the English adoption of the Rococo style was patchy rather than whole - hearted, and there was resistance to it on nationalist grounds, led by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and William Kent, who promoted styles in interior design and furniture to match the Palladianism of the architecture they produced together, also beginning the influential British tradition of the landscape garden, [18] according to Nikolaus Pevsner «the most influential of all English innovations in art».

John Constable, -LRB-; 11 June 1776 — 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the naturalistic tradition.

A new plein - air tradition was initiated by Corot and others from the Barbizon School; the German symbolist painter Caspar David Friedrich injected his landscapes with a new form of romanticism; and the genre was taken to even higher and more extraordinary levels by the English genius JMW Turner.

«If we are regaining confidence in the future of the most rewarding tradition in English art,» he had written of the young painter's landscapes, «then it is thanks to the immense promise of his work.»