Claude Lorrain, French artist best known for, and one of the greatest masters of,
ideal landscape painting, an art form that seeks to present a view of nature more beautiful and harmonious than nature......
Not exact matches
The mood of a
landscape is invariably created by the sky, so if you're creating a mountain scene on a stormy day, a heavy thundery sky may well provide the
ideal backdrop to your
painting.
Travels to Europe over a 10 - year period to research design trends for fashion projects provided an
ideal opportunity to study the tradition of
landscape painting in the museums of Paris and London.
In the absence of an
ideal landscape or place, the
painting itself is an intuitive exploration of the ability of oil
paint to convey the effects of changing light and expansive space.
Of particular interest in the exhibition is Childe Hassam's Adam and Eve Walking Out on Montauk in Early Spring (oil on wood panel, 1924), which succinctly reflects the artist's desire to replicate the Greek Classicist
ideal translated to
painting, and historically is considered one of Hassam's most ambitious
landscape works.
In her late work, she
painted lush, rainbow - colored
landscapes of yearning, in which people — complying with the
ideals of the hippie era — are depicted indulging in acts of free love.
They challenge the principal historical types of
landscape painting (symbolic, factual,
ideal, pastoral, and artificial) by incorporating a range of unexpected elements including myth, dreams, imagination,...
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.
He specialised in
ideal -
landscapes, a traditional form of
landscape painting that aims to present an idyllic view of nature which is even more beautiful and harmonious than nature itself.
This work was crucial for the development of the
ideal landscape, a type of
painting particularly associated with the French artists Poussin and Claude Lorrain (1600 - 82), and which became the most accepted form of
landscape painting, lasting well into the 19th century.