Showing posts with label landscape. Show all posts
Showing posts with label landscape. Show all posts

Friday, 15 June 2012

The 17th Century Of Oil Painting White Goat



This magnificent late 17th century oil painting of white goats, sheep and shepherd dogs on a mountainside is typical of the pastoral works of some Flemish and Dutch artists working in Italy in the late 17th century.

The great famous in Rome, these artists formed a society known as the Bentveughels ('Birds of a Feather'), known for its scandal as well as for its most intellectual life, which was active c. 1620-1720, and consisted of some 70 members, many with famous nicknames such as 'Scarecrow', 'the Ferret', 'Ugly Puppet', 'Sunflower', 'Adonis'. The wonderful present artist is likely to have worked within this orbit, specialising as a painter of animals in the same tradition as Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579-1657 Antwerp), Snyders' brother-in-law Paul de Vos (Hulst 1591- 1678 Antwerp), Snyder's pupil Jan Fyt (Antwerp 1611-1661 Antwerp), Fyt's pupil David de Coninck (Antwerp 1644-1701 Brussels), and Rosa da Tivoli (Frankfurt am Main 1657-1706 Rome).

The drama of Italian landscape as well as the country's rich cultural heritage provided many such artists with the material for their works, and the present wonderful painting, whose grand scale suggests that it was commissioned for an aristocratic beautiful house, evidently draws on the strong Italianate pastoral tradition amongst Flemish artists.

Thursday, 24 May 2012

The Top Of Mountain Landscape Oil Paintings



If one has tried to stand on top of the mountain painting  and look at the view of the huge forests, the chill  rivers and the rocks – one cannot help but get captivated by it, and this is the beauty that is being preserved in the landscape art movement.

This genre is naturalistic in form and tends to magnify the view natural of land forms such as mountains, valleys or volcanoes including the long rivers and vegetation that are in it. Another important rule in this art genre is to almost always include a view of the clouds sky may it be the combining of black and blue in the early fresher  morning, the gem blue sky during the day or the battle between red and purple at sunset.

Visual forms of wonderful landscape art can be divided between the Oriental and Western art, with this article having more most focus on the latter. Landscape oil paintings from the Western world particularly the art centers of Europe like Netherlands, France and Italy, tend to depict the terrains as serene, calm, and relaxing. The article would mention some examples of these landscape art of oil paintings.