LAVANDIER Marie, POMAREDE Vincent, GORD Marie.
Landscape: Window on nature.
LinkArt
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| N° d'inventaire | 29427 |
| Format | 23 x 29 |
| Détails | 392 p., illustrated, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782359063998 |
From the Renaissance to the present day, artists have reenacted the myths of Creation through painting, depicting sky, earth, sea, light, and darkness in their own way. The shimmering snapshots of the Impressionists, the fleeting mists of Chinese mountain and water paintings (shanshui), the thousand and one views of Japanese prints—all these works whisper messages of light and shadow. This coded language finds its origins in what the 17th century called the "ornaments of nature": trees, plants, rocks, and streams.
The book immerses the reader in the sources of artistic representations and follows the artists through the stages of their work, from the preparatory sketch to the finished work. It explores different types of landscapes and perspectives on nature, from the small drawing to the gigantic panorama, from the peaceful plain to the threatening volcanoes, from the ephemeral moment to the vision of eternity, from figuration to abstraction.
The enigmas are numerous: what places are these? What tools do the artists use? What is their relationship to the sciences of their time? How do they feel about natural sites? In addition to the works themselves—famous or more unexpected—the book presents objects that help answer these questions, for example, teaching manuals written by the artists or utensils used in the studio or outdoors. All of them allow us to follow the amateurs in their interiors where the landscape becomes a backdrop, but also the artists during their expeditions, in their gardens or further afield.
In our world, today completely transformed by human activity, the themes of landscape and nature are of burning topicality; the works question them in their own way and demonstrate, if necessary, to what extent art and landscape are linked.
The book immerses the reader in the sources of artistic representations and follows the artists through the stages of their work, from the preparatory sketch to the finished work. It explores different types of landscapes and perspectives on nature, from the small drawing to the gigantic panorama, from the peaceful plain to the threatening volcanoes, from the ephemeral moment to the vision of eternity, from figuration to abstraction.
The enigmas are numerous: what places are these? What tools do the artists use? What is their relationship to the sciences of their time? How do they feel about natural sites? In addition to the works themselves—famous or more unexpected—the book presents objects that help answer these questions, for example, teaching manuals written by the artists or utensils used in the studio or outdoors. All of them allow us to follow the amateurs in their interiors where the landscape becomes a backdrop, but also the artists during their expeditions, in their gardens or further afield.
In our world, today completely transformed by human activity, the themes of landscape and nature are of burning topicality; the works question them in their own way and demonstrate, if necessary, to what extent art and landscape are linked.
The book immerses the reader in the sources of artistic representations and follows the artists through the stages of their work, from the preparatory sketch to the finished work. It explores different types of landscapes and perspectives on nature, from the small drawing to the gigantic panorama, from the peaceful plain to the threatening volcanoes, from the ephemeral moment to the vision of eternity, from figuration to abstraction.
The enigmas are numerous: what places are these? What tools do the artists use? What is their relationship to the sciences of their time? How do they feel about natural sites? In addition to the works themselves—famous or more unexpected—the book presents objects that help answer these questions, for example, teaching manuals written by the artists or utensils used in the studio or outdoors. All of them allow us to follow the amateurs in their interiors where the landscape becomes a backdrop, but also the artists during their expeditions, in their gardens or further afield.
In our world, today completely transformed by human activity, the themes of landscape and nature are of burning topicality; the works question them in their own way and demonstrate, if necessary, to what extent art and landscape are linked.