Showing posts with label rocks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rocks. Show all posts

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.

Tuesday, 15 May 2012

The Oil Painting -Colossus of Rhodes

The oil painting colors says Colossus of Rhodes was a gigantic hollow bronze statue of Apollo. It was erected around old century 292-275 B.C. by Chares of Lindus to overlook the harbor of Rhodes. It required twelve years to build but stood only 56 years until it was overthrown and broken to the  pieces by huge earthquake in 224 B.C..

 The statue stood upward of 105 feet high top on an embankment facing the port (not straddling the first entrance to the port as was often thought).  The legs of the statue were filled with masonry to keep the statue from being top strong heavy.  This and other precautions were unable to save yet another of the wonderful painting ancient wonders from the fury of earthquakes.  It lay broken on the rocks for 896 years until Arab conquerors sold it as scrap metal in 672 A.D..