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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Landscape painting"”.
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Richard Wilson: Landscape painting for a new Exhibition Culture
… and by his followers as ‘the father of British landscape painting’. Painting in Italy and afterwards in Britain, Wilson was arguably the foremost British landscape painter of the eighteenth century. He painted in a classical style shaped by the works of masters such as Claude Lorrain, Gaspard …
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South African landscape painting, 1848-2008 : a handbook for teachers
My dissertation looks at South African landscape painting with the requirements of high school art teachers in mind. It has been written in consultation with Professor Michael Godby, at the University of Cape Town, the curator of the landscape exhibition, to be held at the Old Town House in Cape …
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Transcendentalist Aesthetics in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting
… and the art of the nineteenth-century American landscape painters of the Hudson River School and Luminism. The primary overall goal is to present and argue for a Transcendentalist Aesthetics by making use of the philosophy of Emerson and Peirce, together with the writings and landscapes of the …
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Zhang Daqian’s Landscape Painting Style in the Taiwanese Period (1976–1983)
Zhang Daqian (張大千 Chang Dai-Chien), one of the few internationally renowned Chinese artists of the twentieth century, captivated a global audience with his eclectic blend of styles that masterfully merged the ancient with the modern and the Chinese with the Western. His Taiwanese period (1976–1983) …
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Space into Time: English Canals and English Landscape Painting 1760-1835
… time into what was perceived as an unchanging landscape. Time entered not only in the speed of transport on the canals but also in the factories that ran by the clock and the canals that ran by timetable. The geological layers unearthed in the digging of the canals revealed the passage of eons …
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Metaphysics and Materiality: Landscape Painting and the Art of Kay WalkingStick
… recurring elements: the body, abstraction, and landscape. In order to situate WalkingStick's work within a broader context of philosophical, social and psychological issues, her oeuvre is recontextualized in relation to the larger discourse of American art history, including feminist art history …
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The Development of Landscape Painting Between the Late Gothic Period and the Early Renaissance
… in the emergence of early Renaissance landscape painting, a development that began to take shape between the late fourteenth through the fifteenth centuries. The purpose is to discover what the primary factors were that led to the inception of this new form of artistic expression. This …
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London Exhibitions of Contemporary Art, 1760-1782: The impact on landscape painting and its reception
… were successful in establishing a market for landscape painting between 1760 and 1782 cannot be substantiated. However, two overtly mercantile initiatives, an auction of contemporary British art in 1763 and the subsequent concession to allow exhibitors to mark their work for sale from 1764, …
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Landscape painting as a critical cross-cultural art practice : exploring how the theories and methodologies in ancient Chinese painting can be fused into contemporary landscape art practice to expand existing artistic formats
… Ph.D. study that investigates the genre of landscape painting through a cross-cultural perspective and method of practice. It attempts to link and step across the fields of ancient Chinese and contemporary Western art, with a focus on how to critically understand and use Chinese aesthetic …
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Growing Things: An Investigation in the ways that plant-growth may inform the process of painting
My project interrogates traditional Western landscape painting in light of the contemporary understanding that ‘nature’ has been rearticulated, even plasticised and hence rendered malleable, through human action. The idea of a plasticised natural environment is concomitant with the age of the …
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Conrad Wise Chapman and the Mexican Landscape
This thesis focuses on several paintings of the Mexican landscape produced by Conrad Wise Chapman (1842 – 1910) and held by the Valentine Richmond History Center in Richmond, Virginia. Chapman lived in Mexico from 1865 to 1867 and from 1883 to 1908 (with a few short absences), and during this …
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A Key to All Mythologies
… 2006-June 2008) I have been engaged in landscape painting that takes an experimental approach to material. My use of acrylic, the plastic paint, combines landscape with distortion and artificiality. Plastic has lost the futuristic and hopeful appeal it had in the past but it might still …
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Comparing Bifa ji and Linquan gaozhi: shifts in art writings about landscape in the five dynasties and Northern Song periods
… the object of representation, ways of seeing the landscape, and the craft of painting in Bifa ji and Linquan gaozhi differ from each other. As a result, I argue that the author of Linquan gaozhi valued pictorial representation in landscape painting. This shift was affected by cultural trends …
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Mapping Appalachia
… used in conjunction with traditional notions of landscape painting suggest that there is no single way to understand a place. They also hint of something ineffable but true emerging from their forms. The history of movement of people and natural forces, the arriving and leaving of individuals and …
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"Solo és mãe gentil": a questão de pintura de paisagem : caráter e natureza do Brasil
… of art. Art in Brazil witnesses the emergence of landscape painting in the production of images by traveler painters who came here searching either for the exotic in such landscapes, or moved by the desire to document what they saw, thus gradually providing vast material for the production of …
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Mud and Ashes.
… graduate career. The work consists of fifteen paintings and one sculptural installation. The paintings are on paper and employ local materials such as red clay, pollen, and beeswax along with traditional artist’s materials such as oil and charcoal. Fire and a power sander have also been used as …
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Le imprese artistiche di Giuseppe Verani (1773-1853) nella Corte sabauda alla luce di un manoscritto inedito ottocentesco
… Giuseppe developed a special aptitude for the landscape painting, a genre that allows him to combine an interest in landscape, so the soul of artist, with rigor topography of the scientific and technical design, assimilated through the attendance of the military environment. The views are …
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Volumetric cloud generation using a Chinese brush calligraphy style
… a novel modelling system motivated by an ancient painting style, Chinese Landscape Painting, to address this problem. With the use of only one brush and one colour, an artist can paint a vivid and detailed landscape efficiently. In this research, we develop three emulations of a Chinese brush: a …
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Studio of Nature: The Transformation of Artists' Studios, 1845–1910
… genres. In addition to the continued rise of landscape painting in the nineteenth century, the emergence of Realism challenged inherited notions of the studio as a place of retreat that had prevailed since the Renaissance. The positivism that informed artistic movements around midcentury …
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