Landscape Painting Comes to America: A World Journey from Classic to Plein Air-Apelles Through Inness
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (502 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1936411253 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 156 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-07 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Inspired by the tranquil view waiting to be transferred to canvas in Constable's English countryside, a new curiosity disturbed the painter's concentration. How did America, escaping her burdened beginnings, come to adapt Europe's artistic superiority to her own first great school of landscape painting?Landscape Painting Comes to America, written by a painter, details the development of landscape painting from blank canvas to exhibition, documenting its long struggle to become a genre unto itself while relating that development to its historic migration across an ocean.
LANDSCAPE PAINTING COMES TO AMERICA: A WORLD JOURNEY THROUGH PLEIN AIR-APELLES THROUGH INNESS accomplishes its mission Katherine Lewis has created a masterpiece with her book "Landscape Painting Comes to America". Meticulous research of the evolutionary artists that made possible the development of landscape painting is presented and organized brilliantly. She has presented on the Internet the artist's works representing a novel and beautiful journey into the visual art world. Also, for those who visit museums, it gives them artists to focus on which are significant in the landscape move. A timeless journey into the history of landscape painting As a non-painter, non-art history major but one who can appreciate beautiful work, both on the canvas and on the page, I thought this book was powerful in its ability to keep me turning the page. From the very beginning, when Ms. Lewis references East Anglia and its richness in subject and atmosphere, I knew it would be rich in both enthusiasm and a love for the topic. Throughout each chapter, you could just imagine her unwrapping each bit of scrap paper of personal refl