Nature and Art

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Nature and Art

• Alexis Greenwood
• LIBR500
• lexgreen_at_interchange.ubc.ca

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Nature has long supplied art with

• subject matter
• metaphors for states of being and
• irrefutable canons of proportion
• Linda Weintraub

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• But as nature has lost its
• preeminence in human
• experience, it has relinquished
• its impact on art.
• Linda Weintraub

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Both nature and human nature are wounded by the
relentless paving and bulldozing of the earth,
the extracting of its resources, and the dumping
of nondegradable waste.
Linda Weintraub
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Artists responses to this crisis may vary and
can be compared to

• magnifying glasses
• telescopes
• deflecting lenses
• or mirrors

Linda Weintraub
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Nature once provided sustenance. Now it is in
need of rehabilitation. Linda
Weintraub
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• Nature has given man
• his form, but through
• art man has given new
• forms to nature art is,
• in other words, nature
• having passed through
• man.
• Albert Elsen

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• During the first half of the 19th
• Century Danish and German artists
• studying in Paris and Rome brought
• back the concept of plein air painting
• and

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began painting out-of-doors on their native soil.

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They introduced a whole new aesthetic that was
sensitive to the north, especially during the
long summer days. Catherine Johnston
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• Art creates a condition where one can foresee
  the possibility of change. Art does not exist for
  its own sake. Mel Chin

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