Monet to Matisse

Monet to Matisse
Author: Richard Thomson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1994
Genre: Landscape painting
ISBN:

Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History

Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History
Author: James Elkins
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2010-06-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9622090001

This is a provocative essay of reflections on traditional mainstream scholarship on Chinese art as done by towering figures in the field such as James Cahill and Wen Fong. James Elkins offers an engaging and accessible survey of his personal journey encountering and interpreting Chinese art through Western scholars' writings. He argues that the search for optimal comparisons is itself a modern, Western interest, and that art history as a discipline is inherently Western in several identifiable senses. Although he concentrates on art history in this book, and on Chinese painting in particular, these issues bear implications for Sinology in general, and for wider questions about humanistic inquiry and historical writing. Jennifer Purtle's Foreword provides a useful counterpoint from the perspective of a Chinese art specialist, anticipating and responding to other specialists’ likely reactions to Elkins's hypotheses.

Romantic Geography

Romantic Geography
Author: Yi-Fu Tuan
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 0299296830

Geography is useful, indeed necessary, to survival. Everyone must know where to find food, water, and a place of rest, and, in the modern world, all must make an effort to make the Earth -- our home -- habitable. But much present-day geography lacks drama, with its maps and statistics, descriptions and analysis, but no acts of chivalry, no sense of quest. Not long ago, however, geography was romantic. Heroic explorers ventured to forbidding environments -- oceans, mountains, forests, caves, deserts, polar ice caps -- to test their power of endurance for reasons they couldn't fully articulate. Why climb Everest? "Because it is there." In this book, the author considers the human tendency -- stronger in some cultures than in others -- to veer away from the middle ground of common sense to embrace the polarized values of light and darkness, high and low, chaos and form, mind and body. In so doing, venturesome humans can find salvation in geographies that cater not so much to survival needs (or even to good, comfortable living) as to the passionate and romantic aspirations of their nature

Courbet and the Modern Landscape

Courbet and the Modern Landscape
Author:
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2006
Genre: Landscape in art
ISBN: 0892368365

With its fittingly dramatic design, Courbet and the Modern Landscape accompanies the first major museum exhibition specifically to address Gustave Courbet's extraordinary achievement in landscape painting. Many of these carefully selected works produced from 1855 to 1876--gathered from Asia, Europe, and North America--will be new to readers. The catalogue--which accompanies an exhibition at the Getty Museum to be held from February 21 to May 14, 2006--highlights the artist's expressive responses to the natural environment. Essays by the curators examine Courbet's distinctly modern practice of landscape painting. Mary Morton's essay situates his landscapes in relation to his work in other genres, his critical reputation, and his role in establishing a new pictorial language for landscape painting. Charlotte Eyerman's essay investigates how later generations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists responded to Courbet's example. The catalogue also includes an essay by Dominique de Font-Reaulx, curator of photographs at the Musee d'Orsay, on the relationship between Courbet's work and landscape photography of the 1850s and 1860s. With its fittingly dramatic design, Courbet and the Modern Landscape accompanies the first major museum exhibition specifically to address Gustave Courbet's extraordinary achievement in landscape painting. Many of these carefully selected works produced from 1855 to 1876--gathered from Asia, Europe, and North America--will be new to readers. The catalogue--which accompanies an exhibition at the Getty Museum to be held from February 21 to May 14, 2006--highlights the artist's expressive responses to the natural environment. Essays by the curators examine Courbet's distinctly modern practice of landscape painting. Mary Morton's essay situates his landscapes in relation to his work in other genres, his critical reputation, and his role in establishing a new pictorial language for landscape painting. Charlotte Eyerman's essay investigates how later generations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists responded to Courbet's example. The catalogue also includes an essay by Dominique de Font-Reaulx, curator of photographs at the Musee d'Orsay, on the relationship between Courbet's work and landscape photography of the 1850s and 1860s.

Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting
Author: John F. Carlson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2013-07-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486317455

The whys and hows of the various aspects of landscape painting: angles and consequent values, perspective, painting of trees, more. 34 black-and-white reproductions of paintings by Carlson. 58 explanatory diagrams.

The Elements of Landscape Oil Painting

The Elements of Landscape Oil Painting
Author: Suzanne Brooker
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2015-08-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0804137552

A landscape painting guide for oil painters that breaks landscapes down into component elements from nature, and showcases tools and techniques used by classic and modern oil painters for bringing these scenes to life. Landscape painting is one of the most popular subjects for painters working in the medium of oils--from classic masters to contemporary artists. In The Elements of Landscape Oil Painting, established Watson-Guptill author and noted instructor/painter Suzanne Brooker presents the fundamentals necessary for mastering landscape oil painting, breaking landscapes down into component parts: sky, terrain, trees, and water. Each featured element builds off the previous, with additional lessons on the latest brushes, paints, and other tools used by artists. Key methods like observation, rendering, and color mixing are supported by demonstration paintings and samples from a variety of the best landscape oil painters of all time. With The Elements of Landscape Oil Painting, oil painters looking to break into landscape painting or enhance their work will find all the necessary ingredients for success.

Painting the Landscape in Pastel

Painting the Landscape in Pastel
Author: Albert Handell
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000-11-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0823039129

Known for his use of luminous color, Albert Handell, whose lush landscapes light up these pages, provides lucid instructions to help first-time pastelists achieve impressive results as soon as they begin working with the medium. After reviewing pastel supplies, the author discusses landscape composition and how to establish large shapes first, abstract certain areas, develop a focal point, work from dark to light, and capture the illusion of reality through color. Stepped demonstrations isolate specific landscape aspects, showing how the pastelist depicts skies, trees, buildings, water, rocks, woods, snow, and light.

Valenciennes, Daubigny, and the Origins of French Landscape Painting

Valenciennes, Daubigny, and the Origins of French Landscape Painting
Author: Michael Andrew Marlais
Publisher: Mount Holyoke College Art
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This volume traces the history of French painters' engagement with nature from the late Renaissance, when landscape painting first emerged from the background of narrative representation, up to the eve of Impressionism in the 19th century.

Painting Landscapes from Your Imagination

Painting Landscapes from Your Imagination
Author: Tony Smibert
Publisher: International Artist Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Landscape painting
ISBN: 9781929834020

Artists are always in search of new subjects to paint, and this guide provides what they need to kick-start their creativity. Part art instruction, part inspiration, Painting Landscapes from Your Imagination features step-by-step techniques coupled with imaginative exercises for brainstorming, executing and completing dynamic compositions. Using found objects such as twigs, rocks, photos, doodles, etc. artists will learn to compose engaging landscapes as they practice basic watercolor methods, including dry brushing, charging, mingling and working wet-in-wet. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of painting watercolor landscapes, enabling more advanced artists to skip to the sections they need. This guide also includes a unique fold out and follow me guide which allows artists to juxtapose a large print of three separate compositions with accompanying step-by-step demonstrations. Selling points: A liberating cure for blank paper syndrome; Packed with dozens of techniques, ideas and demonstrations; Features a unique fold out follow me approach.