Showing posts with label Urban. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Urban. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Steps


Frederic Leighton, The Staircase of a House at Capri, 1859.
Henri Le Sidaner, Steps of the Palace at Versailles (Les Marches du Palais)







John Singer Sargent:
Santa Maria della Salute, 1906
The Steps of the Church of S. S. Domenico-e-Siste in Rome
Staircase in Capri, 1878

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Buildings

Buildings can give a landscape painting a geometrical element or pattern, an opportunity to introduce colours and shapes not found in nature. 
The proportion of built to natural environment can be played with. These two landscape paintings have an almost even balance between buildings and nature, creating an interesting tension. 
The townscape or cityscape, is a subgenre of landscape painting that emerged in the seventeenth century.

The top image is a detail from a painting by the Danish artist Christen Kobke.
The lower work is unknown.

Friday, August 14, 2009

Jeremy Mann - American


Noon Down Leavenworth, Oil on Panel, 10 x 13 inches, 2008

This work successfully captures the haze obscuring objects in the distance. Tonal contrasts are much greater in the foreground.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Hopper - USA


New York Pavements

Not really landscape, but wonderful simplicity,
restrained palette, and graphic qualities that could be applied to landscape genre.