WC Piguenit

Kosciusko


William Charles Piguenit, 1836-1914, Australian.

Unassuming and retiring, he shrank from controversy and quietly resigned from the Art Society of New South Wales when it split over the impressionist movement. The first Australian-born artist of note, he delighted in mountain scenery and often chose dramatic subjects for his painting.

Mount Kosciusko is the highest point in Australia.

Read more about Piguenit on a very interesting blog I follow: Art and Architecture, Mainly

Almost Abstract

Jervis McEntee and Walter Shirlaw, Storm Clouds

Frederick Edwin Church

Great Basin, Mt Katahdin, Maine.

Church has used complementary opposite colors (yellow/violet) for vibrancy, adding yellow to the green lower slopes, and adding subtle hints of violet in the shadows of the cliffs above.

Subtle Brushwork

François Biard, Magdalena-Bay, vue prise de la presqu'île des tombeaux, au nord du Spitzberg; effet d'aurore boréale. Louvre Museum.

Source: art inconnu

James David Smillie - American 1833-1909

The color white is often underused by landscape painters, except mixed with other colors. In this piece (and in the examples in the previous few posts) white is used to make a dramatic contrast to shadows and dark foliage.

Conveying an impression of Vastness

Chuck Forsman, Descent

Jakob Philipp Hackert (1737–1807)