![]() ![]() It’s understandable if you’re more familiar with paintings by European artists, but here is a masterpiece by one of China’s most remarkable artists. View across Streams and Mountains (1684) by Wang Hui The painting is currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. He goes on to contrast the dull and gloomy skyline with the lush vegetation and luxuriously hilly terrain of Toledo. If you’ve ever looked up at the sky on a cloudy night, then you would appreciate the artistic skill of this master painter despite his tendency to elongate forms. It is said to be a close-enough depiction of the city Toledo which is located in Spain. Image via Just in case you’re wondering, El Greco means The Greek and it is a nickname for the master who presented us with this absolutely enthralling oil on canvas landscape painting. It is also part of a collection of five (still existing) landscape paintings that feature various seasons of the year. This work is quite popular as it has been widely used in various contemporary movies. Even the dogs seem unhappy as they are depicted in slouching poses. It portends a melancholic aura as the hunting expenditure was obviously was obviously futile (the hunters came back only with a fox). The painting is also referred to as The Return of the Hunters. Just as the name depicts, hunters in the snow is a landscape oil painting done on wood that captures a scene of three hunters returning home after a hunt while it was snowy. The Hunters in The Snow (1565) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder In fact, viewing a landscape painting, provided it’s expertly painted, can be a transcendental experience because you get this sense of beauty that makes you feel at peace and in unity with the rest of the universe.īelow, we bring you a list of 20 landscape paintings from various periods in history that have captivated the eyes and souls of art enthusiasts over the years, and combined together will cost, perhaps billions of dollars to purchase at an auction. Especially when done by a very skilled and talented artist, they leave you in awe of the amazing beauty that nature has to offer. This must have been a disturbing time for him and he later disowned his German heritage by claiming South London birth.Of the various artistic forms of expressions, landscape paintings are some of the most captivating and enthralling pieces to view. I hope the following article helps you to discover more about one of our greatest landscape photographers.īill Brandt was born in Hamburg, Germany growing up in World War I with a British father and a German mother. I immediately had a look around on the internet and found a couple of small books for less than a fiver each and although I could not find the original book that Joe had showed me, these were enough to lead me on a bit of research. Joe had a book by Bill that contained some wonderful, creative black and white landscape work printed in a very bold style that seemed to stand out from it's time (especially in British photography). I only came to know of his landscape work whilst on a workshop in Cornwall with David Ward and Joe Cornish. Bill Brandt is a photographer that is probably well known to a generation of photographers who worked in the sixties and seventies (and maybe the eighties) but unless you are the investigative sort, you may have only heard the name in passing and not realised that he had a passion for landscape photography (he is famous mostly for his portraits and reportage style work). ![]()
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