Landscape Artwork

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Landscape Artwork

• Abstract Art

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Landscape Art

• Landscape painting has been a major genre in art
  since the sixteen hundreds. The landscape
  tradition in art didnt take-off overnight,
  however it slowly developed as artists began to
  focus more on the background of their paintings.
  Dutch artists were the first to paint works in
  which the setting the landscape actually
  became the subject of the painting. We have
  compiled a list of some of the most famous
  landscape artists of all time.

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Thomas Cole The Last of the Mohicans (1826)

• American artist Thomas Cole painted four works
  inspired by James Feinmore Coopers famous novel
  The Last of the Mohicans, published in the same
  year. Although the paintings all depict specific
  scenes of interactions with the Native Americans
  from the novel, the real focus of the painting is
  the American wilderness.

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Claude Monet, Water Lillies (1914-1926)

• In his later years, impressionist artist Claude
  Monet painted a series of paintings of his water
  lily pond. Monets water lily paintings all share
  a pastel palette, and are done in his signature
  loose brushstrokes. Over the years, this series
  of works has become one of the most reproduced
  images of landscape art in history.

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Paul Cezanne, Mount Saint-Victoire (1894-1900)

• Mount Sainte-Victoire lied to the east of
  Cézannes home in Aix-en-Provence, France. Over
  the years, he painted the mountain many times, in
  various painting styles. This painting in
  particular has become so famous because it has
  been labeled by some as one of the earliest works
  of cubism.

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JMW Turner, The Slave Ship (1840)

• Turner painted many famous landscape paintings
  over the course of his career, but none so
  evocative or politically-charged as his Slave
  Ship. The painting depicts a slave ship sinking
  in a storm, and the passengers drowning in the
  choppy waters. He painted the work with the
  abolitionist campaign in mind.

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Claude Lorrain, The Return of the Odysseus (1644)

• Claude Lorrain was the most sought after
  landscape painter in seventeenth and eighteenth
  century France. He is famous for the soft haze he
  gives to the background of his idyllic
  landscapes. This painting, like most of his
  works, references Greek mythology and
  incorporates classical Greek architecture.

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Project

• Study 5 landscape designs
• Decide which one is more your style and write a
  one page paper on why
• Create your own landscape with found objects
• Then we will be painting landscape once it is
  dried.

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Thomas Cole, The Last of the Mohicans
Claude Monet, Water Lillies
Paul Cezanne, Mount Sainte - Victoire
Claude Lorrain, The Return of the Odysseus
JMW Turner, The Slave Ship