Art of Landscapes

by Edmund Swinglehurst

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569241767
• ISBN13: 9781569241769
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Shooting Star Press
• Length: 79 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

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This series on the lives and works of the great painters provides an invaluable guide. In each volume a short introduction gives a brief biography of the artist and explains the elements of his or her painting style. 50 paintings are faithfully reproduced in full color, and an extended caption to each clearly explains the background to the work, its significance in the history of art, and its position in the complete canon of the artist's work.In early painting landscape was merely regarded as a backdrop to religious or mythological dramas,or a background for portraits of the rich and powerful figures of the day. One of the first to use landscape as part of a genre painting was Breugel, with his river landscape,and soon painters such as Claude and Poussin were devoting most of their canvases to landscape, in a romantic, classical framework,with such works as "the storm". These sources were the inspiration for such famous landscape painters as Turner and Constable,Fragonard and Hobbema. The story continues to modern times,taking in victorian painters such as Landseer and Ruskin, as well as the impressionists, and such individual figures as Ben Nicholson and Graham Sutherland.