Essays on Landscape Painting

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Proposal Peculiar historical, cultural and philosophical foundations of East Asian states have facilitated relative homogeneity in local artistic endeavors, though certain peculiar details of art in such countries as China, Korea and Japan might alter greatly. Also, in light of historical trends and events, China became an Sesshū Tōyō a source inspiration for many Japanese artists, as it is shown by the body of research. However, it is still interesting to take a closer look at influences Chinese culture and representational conventions produce on Japanese art in relation to a certain period of time and certain variety of ...

The first sketches of the landscape in the form of contours of the mountains, trees and rivers appeared in primitive cave drawings. At that time, people made the first attempts to portray themselves surrounded by wildlife. Landscape elements can also be found in the art of ancient Greece. Halls of the Knossos Palace on Crete have so far preserved the frescoes, wall painting with a realistic pictures of people against the sea, garden and mountain landscape. Before appearing in the west, landscape as an independent genre appeared in ancient China as a lyrical direction, celebrating the beauty and elegance ...

Chapter 1 Lesson 1 Checking Your Understanding page 5

- There are a variety of different ways that art can be around the world. Art can be in a book that is being read, the furniture that is being sit on, and in the video games that people play on a regular basis. Basically, art can be anything that a person sees, has seen, or might imagine like advertisements on TV, Internet, toys, fashion, cars, paintings, and movies. - Perceive means to become aware through the senses of the special nature of objects. When a person uses their sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste to perceive an object, a person will better understand ...

Art history is characterized by amalgam of magnificent pieces of art that different artists have conventionally produced. New developments have been created because of rubble of ancient cities and artwork found in the caves walls. Through culture behaviors and values are shared by group of people. Better way of survival and living as come up as a result of culture which has been expressed in terms of artwork. The lives of people, their religious beliefs and their talents were expressed in terms of culture. Through these discoveries there were many political, economical and social changes. Paintings are historical records ...

The artwork that I am going to present in this paper is a painting by Dale Nichols “While the Sun Shines” that he created in 1936. It is a classical rural landscape that shows hard work of farmers in the haying season (May, 2012). Before expressing my feelings considering this piece, I want to look into the essence of rural landscape painting. Landscape is a real view of some location, in the visual arts – it is a genre or a single product, in which the main subject of the image is original or to some extent transformed nature. It is not a mechanical reproduction ...