Aerial landscape art

Every year at CMEA, we play set of three songs and there’s a specific pattern to the set. In the pattern of the set, the second song is usually a ballad. This year, our ballad for the set is Kindred Spirits, composed by Brian Balmages. Kindred Spirits was composed for the Browning family after Nicholas Browning had murdered his family on November 1st, 2008. His mother, father and two younger brothers, Gregory and Benjamin, were all shot by Nicholas and passed away. Gregory and Benjamin were both…

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…

I read an interesting essay recently, and I really want to share the story and my understanding with you. In the essay, “Turner and the Barber’s Shop”, John Berger narrates the life and art of Joseph Mallord William Turner who is one of the most important artists in history. Turner was born in London, the son of a barber. “He was a child prodigy” and entered the Royal Academy Schools at fourteen (215). Next, He had his own studio at eighteen, and his father becomes the assistant and factotum. He…

European Romanticism and the influence of Romantic ideas in the arts. European romanticists greatly loved nature and disdained technology, they glorified the rural way of living and believed poetry to be superior to the sciences. Out of the many famous artists at that time is Thomas Cole. Born in 1818 in Bolton, he is an English artist, who moved from Lancashire and settled in New York 1832. He is known for his famous American inspired landscape paintings and is considered the founder of the…

the fall of the French monarchy during the rise of Napoleon, Architectural Fantasy reflects the former works of Hubert Robert while also depicting a slight change in subject matter. Although the painting is of a building, it evokes qualities of a landscape painting with its broad views. Romantic paintings from this era were defined by their use of light and color to convey emotion. Another aspect of Romantic works was that the scenes were often glorified to depict a more beautiful and perfect…

For my method I chose to draw and paint an outline of the Island, while using different colors to show the different type of land (untouched/touched/lava flow). As I stated in my map proposal, I thought this map would have a larger concentration of “touched” land. I was correct, it shows the overwhelming amount of land that has been changed in order to get more tourist to come visit this Island. I thought having a painting would be best because usually when people think of Hawai’i they think…

Landscape art, is the art of landscapes such as natural scenery mountains, trees, and forests are the focal point for the subject. The two main traditions are from western or eastern landscapes perspectives. I will be comparing or contrasting the works of Thomas Cole and Watanabe Shiko. There are vast differences within the perspective, style and coloring when viewing the different landscape techniques. When we first view a painting we notice the visual details. The color, size, location and…

Thomas Cole who was considered a renowned painter and father of the Hudson River School of art wrote “American Scenery.” Within this piece he expressed his overall feelings about America and the importance of the sublime nature that surrounds us. Although his paintings could relay a story within themselves, Cole felt the need to further educate those who would listen. Through his work and one of his many paintings titled “The Oxbow” Cole expresses his view on having a deeper consideration for…

The Rocky Mountain Landers Peak piece was an original piece created by Albert Bierstadt. The mountain displayed within the piece of art itself was named Lander’s Peak, after a US Army General named Frederick West Lander. Albert Bierstadt spent most of his artistic skills creating landscapes. He eventually became part of the Hudson River School of Painters. This painting displayed a beautiful form of light, in which it completely enlightened the emphasis and focal point of the image. The…

The Oxbow is a landscape painting composed by Thomas Cole in 1836 using oil on canvas as medium. The painting was a view from Mount Holyoke, Northamption Massachussets after a thunderstorm. At first glance i can't help but to appreciate the beautiful interpretation of wilderness to the left and the first modern society to the right. Also, This piece shows how unpredictable nature can be due to calamaties and no man can do anything about it. The Oxbow by Thomas Cole is a masterpiece depicting…