Landscape architect

Rapson Hall: Sampling and Blending the Past In the first century BC the architect Vitruvius wrote that architecture is made up of three separate elements: Utilitas, Firmitas, and Venustas.5 In ABC of Architecture, James O’Gorman focuses on Utilitas, or the functional aspects of a building, to analyze types of architecture. He does this through examining plan, beginning with a belief that plan is “the developed diagram of function”4 and that the way the building is to be used is created as the…

undercover as a peasant so he could paint them in their natural environment of everyday life without disturbing them to act differently and the second because that is what he painted, peasants. Pieter Bruegel is a flexible painter of arts such as landscapes, the Tower of Babel, and groups of people like in The Wedding Dance. The Wedding Dance stands out to the reader because here is a lot of detail and rustic coloring that makes the detail stand out just right. It was painted in the year…

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…

for painting landscapes, the group belonged to many of the same clubs and in 1858 many of them worked at the Studio Building on West 10th Street, the first building in New York City to be built primarily as a workplace for artists. Thomas Cole, considered to be the founder of the movement, was born in England in 1801 and emigrated to the United States in 1818. In 1825 he moved to New York City and traveled up the Hudson River to the Catskill Mountains where he painted several landscapes.…

Thomas Cole was an influential American Romantic landscape painter and founder of the Hudson River School. While he was born in England in 1801, his family moved to America while he was in his teens (2016). He then became a wood engraver and then joined his father’s wallpaper business. Shortly after leaving the family business for the second time to pursue painting his work began to attract attention (Avery, 2009). Three of his landscapes were noticed by artists Colonel John Trumbull, Asher B.…

In Martha Ward’s essay Impressionist Installations and Private Exhibitions, Ward explores the ways in which the location of exhibitions and the way that they were organized impacted painting in late nineteenth-century Paris. With the art market flourishing and governmental policies encouraging independence, it was wise for artists such as the Impressionists to branch out and showcase their works in diverse ways. Throughout her essay, Ward stresses the varying “social and aesthetic distinctions…

Normally, a painted desert scene and a horse sculpture don’t have very many things in common, if at all. In Passover, Dennis Blagg has created a stunning and realistic painting. In contrast, Hina, sculpted by Deborah Butterfield is an extraordinary sculpture of a resting horse. While the pieces are different art forms, they both convey the beauty of organic forms in nature. Dennis Blagg is an extremely talented artist in the Southwest area, particularly the Big Bend National Park region of…

oil painting View from Mount Holyoke by Thomas Cole is a stunning aerial view of the landscape at Mount Holyoke. The painting was painted at Northampton Massachusetts after a thunderstorm. View from Mount Holyoke was first shown to the world at the National Academy of Design in 1836. The painting was long known as The Oxbow. Using the elements and principles of design, Cole created a masterpiece in American landscape paintings. Cole incorporated many elements of design in View from Mount…

dull and shadowy grays and blues of the valley in the background. Overall, this shift gives the piece an atmospheric quality that holds true to how a person would actually perceive an impending storm. This realism makes it easier to envision the landscape scene and helps viewers develop feelings and emotions on subject matter. Hence, with Bierstadt’s realistic capture of depth and careful use of atmospheric perspective, he is able to transport people to this realistic scene so that they can…

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…