The Art of the Landscape

Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant and Canaletto's Thames Pageants #1

2012-04-30T11:31:00.002+01:00

The River Thames with St. Paul's Cathedral on Lord Mayor's Day (1746) Canaletto oil on canvas, 26.8 x 37.6 cm The Lobkowicz Collections, Prague Castle, Czech Republic There's going to be a Pageant on...

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Paradises and Landscapes

2012-04-22T10:52:00.002+01:00

A new exhibition Paradises and Landscapes in the Carmen Thyssen Collection From Brueghel to Gauguin has opened at the Museum Carmen Thyssen in Malaga, Spain. Paradises and Landscapes Exhibition...

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Talking about Hockney's Landscape Painting

2012-04-08T23:00:00.017+01:00

Tomorrow is the last day of the Royal Academy exhibition David Hockney RA - A Bigger Picture. I'm going to see it for the fourth time at 8pm tomorrow evening. The exhibition closes at 10pm. Here...

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Paintings of water in March by Willard Metcalf

2012-03-31T10:36:00.001+01:00

I've not come across Willard Metcalf (1858-1925) before. He's an American artist who became renowned as a landscape painter. Here are two landscapes by Metcalf for the Spring Landscape series....

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'March' by Isaac Levitan (Spring Landscape #4)

2012-03-28T23:00:00.009+01:00

March (1895) by Isaac Levitan oil, 60 x 75cm The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia We tend to think of Spring as being new shoots, fresh green buds - maybe a bit of blustery weather. But for a lot...

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March: Peasants at Work on a Feudal Estate by Limbourg brothers

2012-03-27T12:00:00.014+01:00

March: Peasants at Work on a Feudal Estate by the Limbourg Brothers Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry ? on vellum, 22 x 13.5 cm Musee Conde, Chantilly, France I've got just a few days left to find...

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Spring Landscape #2 - by Berthe Morisot

2012-03-25T14:25:00.001+01:00

I had no idea that French impressionist painter Berthe Morisot drew landscapes in coloured pencils - I think of her as somebody painted people. However a search for spring landscapes turned up this...

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The Louvre, March Mist - Pissaro (Spring Landscape #1)

2012-03-21T17:30:00.000Z

The Louvre, March Mist by Camille Pissarro oil painting on canvas, 54 x 65cm Location: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark I'm starting a series of posts about Spring landscapes. I wanted...

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Cityscapes - and Terry Miura's Challenge

2012-02-24T20:39:00.001Z

Terry Miura - Cityscapes If you're interested in painting cityscapes, I suggest you check out Terry Miura's blog Studio Notes as he's running a challenge. It's akin to the challenges which Karin...

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Places to Paint: David Hockney and East Yorkshire

2012-02-12T14:00:00.062Z

The Hockney Trail is a new website which provides an insight into all the places where David Hockney has been painting in East Yorkshire - and in particular those which can be seen in the David...

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Hockney: 51 iPad drawings on paper - Winter to Spring in Woldgate

2012-02-11T14:17:00.005Z

SkyNews have produced the first video film I've seen which provides a good view of the printed iPad landscapes of East Yorkshire as drawn by David Hockney - which can be seen in the David Hockney RA...

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"February" by Stanley Roy Badmin RWS

2012-02-03T02:16:00.001Z

At the Watercolours and Works on Paper Art Fair today I saw a painting called "February" by Stanley Roy Badmin RWS (!906 - 1989) February by Stanley Roy Badmin I was reminded that his paintings...

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Hockney: sketchbooks, iPad sketching and the Yosemite Valley

2012-01-20T01:02:00.001Z

This post is about Hockney's sketching and painting using sketchbooks and iPads. and is part of a series of posts about specific aspects of the David Hockney RA - The Bigger Picture exhibition at the...

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David Hockney RA talks about landscape painting

2012-01-17T20:25:00.003Z

David Hockney RA - A Bigger Picture - Gallery Guide opening at the Royal Academy of Arts on 21 January 2012 I'm currently writing a review of the new exhibition by David Hockney at the Royal Academy...

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The MAM Award for Best Picture (Place) on an Art Blog 2011

2012-01-04T23:00:00.000Z

Pacific Passage © Robin Purcell (Robin Purcell - Watercolours in the Plein Air Tradition) 14" x 14", watercolour I'm pleased to announce that Robin Purcell (Robin Purcell - Watercolours in the Plein...

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Wolf Kahn - 6 good reasons not to paint a landscape

2012-01-02T23:56:00.001Z

There's a 2002 Forum Network lecture by Wolf Kahn - highlighting 6 good reasons not to paint a landscape - in which he discusses landscape painting. Wolf Kahn, an influential modern landscape...

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Film of Claude Monet painting waterlilies at Giverny

2011-12-16T09:00:00.038Z

Below you can see a short film of the Impressionist painter Claude Monet at work on one of the paintings in his series of paintings of the nympheas (waterlilies) in the water garden at his home in...

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Hopewell Rocks, New Brunswick - Winter Landscapes #2

2011-12-10T10:00:00.020Z

Hopewell, New Brunswick, 24×12 © 2009 Michelle Basic Hendry From a painting near the USA Canadian border in Washington on the west coast to the another place near the USA / Canadian border - but...

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Remnant Snow - Winter Landscapes #1

2011-12-07T09:41:00.003Z

Remnant by Casey Klahn small pastel This is a pastel painting of a remnant of snow by Casey Klahn (The Colorist). Casey does fabulous landscapes in pastels and has been juried into exhibitions by...

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Winter Landscapes by Ivan Shiskin

2011-12-03T11:51:00.001Z

Winter (1890) by Ivan Shiskin Oil on canvas, 125.5 x 204 cm State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg | Source: Wikimedia Commons The great Russian landscape painter, Ivan Shiskin (1838-1892) very much...

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Winter Landscapes

2011-12-01T10:00:00.054Z

Street in Winter: sunlight and snow (1872) by Camille Pissaro I'm about to start a series of posts on this blog about Winter Landscapes. This will be a mixture of artwork by famous artists and by...

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A Vermont Pond - Autumn Landscapes #10

2011-11-29T18:00:00.054Z

The Pond on Rice Farm Road The look of Autumn varies depending on place, the type of trees which grow there and how much rain or sun that place has had. This pastel painting of The Pond on Rice...

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Autumn in DC - Autumn Landscapes #9

2011-11-28T00:30:00.000Z

More about Autumn in Washington DC - Kathryn Law (Kathryn Law) wrote to me I just returned from a trip to Washington DC where I did five little paintings while taking a break from museum-crawling. ...

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Washington tree - Autumn Landscapes #8

2011-11-26T12:00:00.023Z

White Oak, National Arboretum Oil on Panel, 10x8" (c) Kelly Medford, 2011 Like the last post - this is also a painting of an oak tree in Autumn. This plein air painting of a white oak tree with...

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Golden Oak - Autumn Landscape #7

2011-11-24T12:00:00.079Z

I absolutely adore Robin Purcell's paintings - she's one of those people who generates strong feelings in me of "if only I could paint like that! I love looking at her paintings of landscapes of...

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