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Hudson River Painters of the mid 1800s, like Sanford Gifford explained their work as poetic responses to the American landscape, not factual transcriptions. While artists like Sanford traveled far exploring both American and Italian landscape motifs they often found adventure … Continued
J.M.W. jumps to mind when we think of artists investing motion and energy in rendering architecture. This investment provides an image which suggests more volume, atmosphere, and noise which comes at the expense of stolid measured accuracy. I side with … Continued
Have you seen Pieter Bruegel’s painting of winter, “Hunters in the Snow” from 1565? It’s an early European depiction of winter. Persian and Chinese landscape painters had pictured winter even earlier. By the late 19th century Impressionists from Claude Monet … Continued