Pamela Thomson will show plein
air landscape paintings as well as still lifes of fruit, vegetables, flowers and objects painted in the studio.
One lovely summer day, an iconic vision comes to mind: you see yourself seated at your easel in a field of flowers, working peacefully on a plein -
air landscape painting as clouds float above and bees pass by, humming in a friendly manner while searching for nectar or creating honey or whatever.
Not exact matches
Leaves are about to fall and change
as bright bold colors
paint the
landscape of all the trees, the first hint of chill is in the early morning
air as summer turns into fall.
His quotes report about his plain
air painting trips with artists Monet and Cezanne, (
painting together) in open
air, to catch the
landscape in the atmosphere of the moment and right color - tones
as well.
In Le Havre, on the North Coast of France during the late 1850's the then teenage Claude Monet who had become adept
as a political caricaturist began developing the art of plein
air landscape painting (under the tutelage of Eugéne Boudin) perhaps
as a response to and a logical outgrowth of the then popular Barbizon School.
You can bolster the atmospheric effects when
painting the sky,
as Richard McKinley did, in this overcast
landscape, Malheur Rain (en plein
air pastel, 11 × 14).
Grau's work is grounded in the history of plein
air painting, an in - situ practice of
landscape painting based on direct observation that was initiated by artists such
as Claude Monet, Pierre - Auguste Renoir, and Camille Pissarro in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Still explains the «ascending verticality» and «aspirational thrust» of his canvases throughout his career
as taking root in his early
landscape painting which he described
as «records of
air and light, yet always inevitably with the rising forms or the vertical necessity of life dominating the horizon... And so was born and became intrinsic this elemental characteristic on my life and my work.»
Plein
air yet performative
paintings of dense forest
landscapes from Northern Florida and Georgia
as well
as the Cascades Mountains in Washington State.
The sweeping views of the dreamy surrounding
landscape and villages that have caused Civita Castellana to become an epicenter of plein
air painting for more than 300 years have now served
as Hershberg's source of inspiration for the works in this new show.
As its European father, the American Impressionism saw different artists gathering and following in its footsteps regarding the depiction of the everyday modern life and the tradition of the en plain
air, started with Monet's
landscape paintings.
Each of these painters interpreted the Matunuck
landscape in a personal way, yet among them they encompass most of the major trends defining American
painting of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries — the Barbizon School, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Tonalism and plein -
air painting —
as well
as the creation of the era's predominant artistic institution: a summer school.
His use of the watercolor
as an ideal medium for plain
air paintings and the production of the startlingly atmospheric and expressive
paintings of the English countryside anticipated the Impressionist movement by over 50 years and turned
landscape painting into a vital discipline.
The very essence of nature's yin - yang is now at her wrist
as she couples the formalism of
landscape plein
air painting with evocative abstraction.
As an artist - in - residence at 24 HR MART, Trowbridge spends her time collecting color «data» from the
landscape in the form of plein -
air paintings.
Steven's
landscapes have been well received by collectors and his
paintings are part of several private collections such
as Hilton Hotels, the Boy Scouts of America, Dominion Resources, Virginia State Department, the National Parks Service, and the United States
Air Force.
Nature was an important subject for Romantics, and the style is exemplified, by the English School of
Landscape Painting, the plein air painting of John Constable (1776 - 1837), Corot (1796 - 1875) along with members of the French Barbizon School and the American Hudson River School of landscape painting, as well as the more expressionistic JMW Turner (1775
Painting, the plein
air painting of John Constable (1776 - 1837), Corot (1796 - 1875) along with members of the French Barbizon School and the American Hudson River School of landscape painting, as well as the more expressionistic JMW Turner (1775
painting of John Constable (1776 - 1837), Corot (1796 - 1875) along with members of the French Barbizon School and the American Hudson River School of
landscape painting, as well as the more expressionistic JMW Turner (1775
painting,
as well
as the more expressionistic JMW Turner (1775 - 1851).
NOTE: Despite the dominant reputation of 19th century French
landscape painting,
as exemplified by the Barbizon School, it is worth remembering that the English painters John Constable (1776 - 1837), JMW Turner (1775 - 1851), and Richard Parkes Bonington (1802 - 28) exerted a major influence over Barbizon and other plein -
air painters.
Inspired by pioneers like John Constable (1776 - 1837) and Richard Parkes Bonington (1802 - 28) from the school of English
landscape painting,
as well
as Theodore Rousseau (1812 - 67) and Jean - Francois Millet (1814 - 75), and initially linked with the Naturalist and Realist movements, which were themselves a reaction to the social changes caused by the Industrial Revolution, the principles of plein -
air art later formed the core of Impressionism - specifically Impressionist
landscape painting -
as practised by Monet (1840 - 1926) during the last 30 years of the century.
Influenced by Turner
as well
as the Barbizon School of
landscape painting, Streeton was also strongly drawn to the loose brushwork and light - focused approach of French Impressionism,
as well
as its focus on plein
air painting directly from nature.
Just like the Impressionists» plein
air paintings of the bourgeoisie, Los Angeles - based artist Joshua Nathanson begins his work by sketching the city's
landscapes such
as the shopping malls and public parks on site.
Inspired by the flat East Anglian
landscape with its big skies, Norfolk Broads and rivers, and by 17th century Dutch Realist painters such
as Meindert Hobbema (1638 - 1709) and Jacob van Ruisdael (1628 - 82), Norwich School artists included amateurs
as well
as professionals, many of whom practised the avant - garde method of plein
air painting.
Committed to plein -
air painting, he ranks with Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) and Alfred Sisley (1839 - 1899)
as one of the best
landscape artists of the late 19th century.
Photography was also employed by
landscape artists - notably the French Impressionist painters,
as an aid to plein -
air painting.
Other leading members of this plein
air painting movement included members of the school of English
landscape painting, such
as John Constable (1776 - 1837) and Richard Parkes Bonington (1802 - 28),
as well
as French painters like Theodore Rousseau (1812 - 67), Camille Corot (1796 - 1875), Narcisse Diaz de la Pena (1808 - 1876), Charles - Francois Daubigny (1817 - 1878), Jules Dupre (1811 - 1889), Joseph Harpignies (1819 - 1916), Constant Troyon (1810 - 1865), Charles - Emile Jacque (1813 - 1894), Antoine - Louis Barye (1796 - 1875), Albert Charpin, Felix Ziem and Alexandre De Faux.
During his stay at the artists» colony, he took to
landscape painting in the open
air as he absorbed the ideas and plein -
air methods of the Barbizon and Impressionist
landscape school, all of which were high fashion at the time.
Furthermore, even if most of his
landscapes do have an Irish flavour, they fall squarely within the European plein -
air painting tradition of the likes of Nathaniel Hone the Younger (1831 - 1917), Augustus Nicholas Burke (1838 - 91), Frank O'Meara (1853 - 88), Roderic O'Conor (1861 - 1940), Walter Osborne (1859 - 1903) and John Lavery (1856 - 1941),
as well
as Newlyn artists Stanhope Forbes (1857 - 1947) and Norman Garstin (1847 - 1926), to name but a few.