Landscape

1821, is oil painted on canvas and by the size of the painting, it is a large-scale artwork that requires a lot of details. This is landscape image as it discussed on out the textbook. The artist translated and created the painting based on the real world image. The artist used the visual art to present the form to the viewers to perceive through their lense. Landscape are popular in the United States and Europe in the nineteenth century. Landscaping requires a lot of artist attention. All the…

They believed that the urbanization of the land they held so dear was a bad thing and wanted to preserve the beauty of the American wilderness. They expressed this political position by painting idealized landscapes. Visions of how they believed the world should look like - the state of things they thought was best. Society and art have changed a lot since the mid 19th century but art that subverts the times by presenting how the artist thinks things should…

Sierra Nevada, California is an oil painting, and it is a prime example of a romantic landscape. Bierstadt was a successful artist creating at the end of the of the Romantic period. By referencing this painting, I will be able to analyze and interpret the pre-impressionist idea of nature with the Impressionist’s idea and then put both ideas into conversation with Thoreau’s work, Walden. The Oxbow is a Romantic landscape that idealizes nature and glorifies it in an unnatural way. Cole was one…

Chinese landscape painting in the long process of development, the formation of a unique style and aesthetic taste and a complete theoretical system. Similarly, in the Western painting accounted for an important position of the landscape is also true. These two objects of the same performance using different forms of expression of art in the world of art treasures occupy an extremely important position. They are in two different civilizations, the aesthetic value of these two art is the precious…

modes of the landscape and they more experience it within their five senses (Forman, 1995). Traditionally speaking, when we talk about city landscapes we are more focused on the visual level, which equals to the representation that the city landscape offers, including lines, shapes, colors and other external forms. That is largely because visual experience gives the viewer the first-hand experience on an object most directly and straightforwardly (Lovelock, 1979). In this context, landscape is…

1. Visible Landscape – THE VIEW • A view is an evolving panorama of many blending facets. • Panorama is a word used to describe a scene that stretches across our filed of view virtually interrupted • A view is a theme, It’s proper realization resembles the musical creation of variations of a theme. • A view is a constantly changing mood-inducer. • A view is a limit of visual space. It transcends the boundaries of the site. It has directional pull. It may evoke a sense of expansive freedom.…

Transportation and Change: The impact from the artificial landscapes of waterway transportation system on the hydrology and economy of the surrounding region. I. Introduction A. To estimate if it is worth changing the landscape to enhance the transportation system, it is critical to give comprehensive evaluations to current cases. B. Dr. McQueary (2006) states in the article “Landscape ecology in transportation planning” that while development of transportation systems benefits humans…

The Oxbow, painted by artist Thomas Cole, is a beautiful landscape painting with numerous details and color, used to depict a scene from Mount Holyoke, in Massachusetts, after a thunderstorm. Cole was an American painter, born in England, where he spent the first part of his life. When his family moved to Ohio, he began by painting portraits, but later moved to New York where he began painting landscapes, which he is primarily known for. He experienced great success in New York, and was promoted…

effects that we as humans have on altering and changing the landscape for ourselves. Spirn looks into the legacy of Olmsted who was convinced that the betterment of ‘natural’ spaces was key in having a lasting physical, mental and moral effects on humanlife, that it would release happiness and that the lack of current opportunity could ‘lead to depression and mental illness’. Olmsted’s works valued the natural scenery, the importance of landscapes for the public, the need to manage these space…

Joseph Mallord William Turner was an English artist who gained notoriety from his landscape paintings that utilize the dynamic lights that illuminate the scenery he builds. Joseph Turner’s work innovated and popularized landscape painting, which laid the foundation for impressionism to come into prevalence after the Romantic period. This is observed in his painting Rockets and Blue Lights, painted in 1840 with oil on canvas. Rockets and Blue Lights displays a coastal view of the ocean that…