Essays Tagged: "landscape painting"

Vincent Willem Van Gogh

. Vincent had relatives in the art/artist talent business. A cousin named Anton Mauve, who was into landscape painting, and two uncles that specialized in art dealings. When Vincent was 16 he began wo ... 1890 was when this famous Dutch painter painted most of his important work. Van Gogh painted mostly landscapes. For example; A Wheat feild, with Cypresses 1889. ABOVEMost postimpressionist artists rej ...

(2 pages) 140 0 4.2 Mar/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Comparing piece of art to America

ere, everything is utterly perfect: nothing can go wrong. Many have stepped forth and examined this landscape painting with close scrutiny and reveled in the many dots and irregular dabs and murmured ...

(1 pages) 58 1 4.7 Jan/2003

Subjects: Art Essays

The history of black and white photographic processes and its cameras.

appearing in the middle ages, camera obscuras were made popular by artists who used them in aid of landscape painting. During the Renaissance the lens made images inside the camera more clear and lar ...

(5 pages) 68 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Art Essays

The History Of Photography: Past Through Present.

appearing in the middle ages, camera obscuras were made popular by artists who used them in aid of landscape painting. During the Renaissance the lens made images inside the camera more clear and lar ...

(8 pages) 159 2 3.4 Apr/2003

Subjects: Art Essays

Why is the "Group of Seven" the most influential group of painters in Canada?

adians felt a growing need to portray their land more honestly."1 The Group of Seven was a group of landscape painters who took up the challenge and transformed the misleading and stereotyped ways tha ... ston, Franklin Carmichael and A.Y. Jackson.Before the Group of Seven emerged from Toronto, Canadian landscape painting often imitated European styles and themes. The Group were regarded as the creator ...

(2 pages) 50 1 4.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > Canadian History

Baroque Period Historical Background.

ization that the earth was not at the center of the universe coincided in art with the rise of pure landscape painting devoid of human figures. The active trade and colonization policies of many Europ ...

(1 pages) 68 0 5.0 Sep/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Critique Report on David Hockney - Philosophical In His Work

indifference, a visual product of carefully flattened internal perspectives.His works of figurative landscape painting are far distant from painters who sought to transport viewers into the natural wo ... into the natural world of intertwined geology and botany. Rather, Hockney's works portray American landscape as a dramatic design that restates and moves scenes forward in planar perspective.In Hockn ...

(4 pages) 78 0 4.6 May/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

A chronological biography Vincent Willem Van Gogh

8. The Van Gogh family was in the art business. Vincent had a cousin named Anton Mauve who was into landscape painting and two uncles that specialized in dealing art. Vincent's work, in which his youn ...

(2 pages) 30 0 4.4 Oct/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Landscape painting in Ireland during 18th century: George Barret (1732-1784) William Ashford (1746-1824) and Thomas Roberts (1748-1778).

Landscape Painting of 18th century in IrelandThe development of Irish landscape painting began with ... ssociated painter with Ireland was James Malton, who later becomes influential to the topographical landscape painters. The change from topographical views occurred only in the middle of the 18th cent ... om established values; involving a notion of imagination, emotion and nature.Some of the best Irish landscape painters were George Barret (1732-1784) William Ashford (1746-1824) and Thomas Roberts (17 ...

(6 pages) 9 1 0.0 Feb/2009

Subjects: Art Essays

On Naturalists Henry David Thoreau and Thomas Cole

was a key figure that led the budding art movement known as the Hudson River School and popularized landscape painting in the United States. Both of these men expressed the inherited duty of humans, ... he was growing up. Cole made a trip the West Indies in 1820 that kindled his interest in dramatic landscapes as he sketched and studied the mountainous islands. After a few years dabbling in poetry ...

(11 pages) 2609 0 0.0 Nov/2009

Subjects: Humanities Essays