Immerse yourself in the vibrant cascade of the Perthshire highlands with this bold and vivid print, inspired by the captivating Falls of Tarf. Crafted in a fauvist style, this piece swells with unbridled energy and emotion, harnessing a palette of vivid colours rarely associated with the rustic tranquillity of Scottish waterfalls. The composition presents an abstracted interpretation of the natural landscape, where trees curve with stylised elegance against a backdrop of autumnal gold and fiery amber. The falls themselves plunge through the painting in a symphony of electric blues and frothy whites, contrasting dynamically with the surrounding rocks painted in deep shades of crimson and ochre. Strong, swirling brushstrokes confer a sense of movement to the water, which seems to dance and tumble over the canvas, creating a visual roar as expressive as the sound of the falls themselves. Each colour seems to have been chosen not for its realism but for its emotional resonance, lending the scene an exuberance that captures more than the eye can see. An audacious addition to our 'Scottish Waterfalls' collection, this print celebrates the unyielding spirit of the Highlands. It's an invitation to explore the raw beauty of Scotland through a lens of artistic boldness, where nature's essence is expressed with an intensity that echoes the deep-seated passion of Fauvism, making it an ideal piece to bring life to any space.
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The painter Nicolas de Staël arrived in the Vaucluse in the summer of 1953. He rented an old silk barn from a local family at Lagnes, just below Gordes. In 1951 he had met and become close friends with the poet Renee Char who lived at L'isle sur la Sorgue, and Char encouraged him to come to the area to paint. De Staël was immediately taken by the light, colour and form of the valley and wrote to a friend "the infinite basin of the Vaucluse is clothed by good rocks, white marble and a sea of green composed of three or four different woods, its amazing, the richness of this countryside". paysage de Vaucluse no 2 1953 paysage de Vaucluse no 3 1953 De Staël, an original and vital painter, had spent the post-war years experimenting with questions of space and colour. He was embarking on a very productive and innovative period of his career. He did not regard himself as an abstract painter, but rather saw himself as part of the tradition of naturalistic painters such as Constable, Corot and Courbet, whose work he admired. He wrote, "I do not ‘objectify’ anything that I see. I do not paint before seeing. I am not looking for anything other than painting ‘visible’ by everyone." He attempted to express his sensations of space and light by creating successive layers of coloured texture. "I need to feel life in front of me and to capture it completely as it enters my eyes and skin," In November 1953 he bought a beautiful chateau at Menerbes. After a life-time of retched poverty he had begun to have some critical acclaim, particularly in America, and this enabled him to buy his family a home. views of Menerbes 1954 In 1953 he had seen the first exhibition of Matisse's cut-outs which had a great influence on his work. He gradually simplified his method of composition until with four or five broad sweeps of colour he was able to evoke the constituant elements of a landscape. He drew and painted incessantly filling the three enormous white studios in the chateau with fresh paintings. De Staël became friends with the english art critic and historian Douglas Cooper who lived nearby at Uzes. Cooper, friend also to Picasso, had a substantial collection of cubist paintings which he often went to study. Some of de Staël's most powerful and dramatic paintings of this period are of the journey between Menerbes and Uzes. He was a great draughtsman and would often stop on the journey to note down compositions for paintings to be worked up later in the studio. series Route d'Uzes 1954 Of this work he wrote, "One never paints what one sees or thinks one sees; rather one records, with a thousand vibrations, the shock one has received, or will receive, be it the same or different" One year after painting this series, Nicolas de Staël jumped to his death from the terrace of his studio which faced the sea at Antibes. He was only 41 years old and in a decade of intense painting he had produced over 700 canvases. On de Staël's death Cooper described his friend as "the truest, the most considerable and the most innately gifted painter who has appeared on the scene in Europe or elsewhere during the last 25 years." Ciel et Mer 1955
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we are here to give you an insight into a list of Landscape Paintings Which Will Leave You Amazed. Keith Shackleton once quoted – “A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint.
Degas was a loner. He had always felt alone. Alone because of his character, alone because of his unyielding principles, alone because of his severe judgments. He exhibited with the Impressionists but he didn’t consider himself a member of the group, if for no other reason than that he violently rejected the very idea of painting outdoors. “If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on the people who paint landscapes from nature,” he told the art dealer Ambroise Vollard.
David Hockney’s Landscape paintings are highly influential to my practice. The paintings are almost split into sections and different areas, which is relational to my work. Each section of fi…
" Clouds " William Hawkins
A relic of the past, this old water operated mill still stands proud as a reminder that, unfortunately, modern technology has taken over. In this lesson you will capture and paint the mill in watercolour for posterity. In this lesson you will learn 1. How to simplify the background 2. How to make the building stand out from the scene 3. How to render the stone wall 4. How to change the distracting foreground 5. And more ...
To continue our journey to discover the colors, with the year 7 classes, we painted landscapes in tempera tonal gradation. The forms that become more clear to the horizon can give a sense of distan…
For me, even a simple landscape painting needs to have three basic elements. A foreground, midground and background. How those three elements are handled will
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We looked at the work of contemporary Dutch painter Ton Schulten (1938). He is loved for his colorful, vibrant landscapes depicting his native countryside, his use of horizontal and vertical lines which create a mosaic-like landscape made up of blocks of color, and his bright central light. His unique style of painting has been coined 'Concensism'. Process: After discussing his use of line and color we began to draw our own landscape. Utilizing the 'rule of thirds' (foreground, middle ground, background) we made our horizontal lines, added a few houses, and then made our vertical lines to create many squares. Like Schulten, we left the center of our landscape open, bright and airy and got increasingly dark as we moved out to the edges of our painting. We used warm colors to give our landscapes that central, bright light typical of Schulten's paintings. We thought carefully about how to make our houses and trees stand out against the background. My 6-12 year old classes and adult class used acrylics and mixed their own colors and tints to expand their palette and made sure to repeat colors in order to create balance. My younger class used oil pastels on colored construction paper, and first colored in the warm colors and then cool colors. A quick outline in black made their shapes and colors pop. These are so beautiful and really entice the viewer to enter the painting! 9-11 year olds. Acrylic 6-9 year olds. Acrylic Little class (4-5 year olds) Oil pastel on colored construction paper Adult class. Acrylic
Landscape Paintings by Hong Leung. As a master of oil on canvas, Leung achieves a haunting quality in his works that absorbs the viewer’s emotions like an
Joachim Patinir, Bouvignes? 1475/80 - Antwerpen 1515/24 Maria mit schlafendem Kind in einer Landschaft - Mary with the sleeping child in a landscape – Detail (ca. 1520) Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt Joachim Patinir, der aus der Gegend um Dinant stammte, erhielt seine Ausbildung vermutlich in der Werkstatt von Gerard David in Brügge und wurde später Mitglied der Antwerpener Lukasgilde. Wie viele Maler des 16. Jahrhunderts spezialisierte sich auch Patinir auf ein gestimmtes Genre und wurde der erste echte Landschaftsmaler in den Niederlanden. Albrecht Dürer bezeichnete ihn als "der gut landschaft maler" und dies war die erste Erwähnung des Wortes "Landschaft" im Deutschen. Für das gesamte Gemälde siehe / For the complete painting see: www.flickr.com/photos/hen-magonza/29428169780/in/photolis...
Isn’t always fascinating to see what is behind the top layer of a painting? Every time I look at an artist’s artwork I wonder what was the first mark on the surface? How many passes were made? Did the artist already have something in mind or ...
This bundle contains 9 beautiful, picturesque vector landscapes featuring mountains, lakes and trees. These are perfect for web backgrounds, header images and much more. They are also fully scalable and have been drawn from scratch using simple vector paths with minimal gradients.
Here are 10 simple and actionable landscape painting tips which you can use in your next painting. Perfect for beginners.
