Sunday, 13 April 2014

Elements In The Work Of Famous Landscape Painters

By Anita Ortega


Famous artists all choose their own way of working with space. This results in a style that makes it easy to identify their paintings. With some, there is a degree of abstraction because they prefer to interpret space in new ways. Monet, Turner and Kiefer are just a few creative people who integrated romantic ideals and reflections on the weaknesses of human beings in their compositions.

Artists who focus on this category generally try to bring out whatever makes a scene capture their attention. When they examine the beauty of creation, something stands out and they decide to try and put that on canvas. People all over the world usually look forward to seeing what these famous landscape painters have done. In this way, all of us may continue enjoying beautiful scenery while we are indoors. We can also see what places look like many years ago.

A painter may work with color a lot in this type of composition. Europeans tended to place a lot more emphasis on using color of all shades than their counterparts in Asian. Many famous eastern paintings rely on the differences in shade for a particular color to bring across depth. In any of these paintings, viewers can see a lot to capture their interest and lead them to think about the effect that tones have on them.

Color also influences how viewers perceive the nature of a specific element in a painting. For example, if something is rendered in orange, we tend to attribute certain qualities to it. Bright shades draw attention and in this way, artists can lead viewers of their artwork to attach more prominence to specific objects such as trees or buildings.

Just the presence or absence of man made structures can tell you a lot about the age of a painting. In lots of contemporary work, there is more evidence of the joining of humankind with nature. You tend to see more fences, bridges, roads and other structures that were made by human hands. In the paintings of the old masters, you see less of this.

Landscape painters are occasionally thought of as people who merely create pictures that are pleasing diversion. However, they can easily make political statements and communicate strong messages in their work. Symbols may be assembled in ways that reflect the follies of a nation or the uselessness of some particular type of behavior. The spiritual values which are important to a nation may be celebrated by the inclusion of mountains or other signs.

Some of the popular Chinese and Japanese artists used various techniques to bring mountains closer to the viewer. By using details on these faraway objects, they focused more attention on them. Wyeth is also well known for using lots of details in his work and that has made his paintings more remarkable. Over time, he spent less time on color and worked to emphasize details in glass or blades of grass.

Beautiful landscape paintings allow you the chance to reflect on life and the environment. There are artists in this category who did not only focus on landscapes. They did many other types of work. However, their compositions in this genre will be appreciated by anyone who has an interest in it. Museums and galleries make it easier to see examples of their work.




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