Landscape, Still Life, and Collage
To recap what we've been doing the past couple of weeks: The week of Nov. 15th, just before Thanksgiving break, we learned all about Landscapes! The one featured above is by Asher Durand , an artist of the Hudson River School (HRS), and is titled Kindred Spirits . This painting paid homage to fellow artist Thomas Cole , and to the poet William Cullen Bryant . We talked about how this particular landscape combines elements of the Clove of the Catskills and also Kaaterskill Falls, becoming an "imaginary" landscape built from real locations. Henri Rousseau's Landscape with Cattle We looked at a number of different styles of landscape painting, comparing Durand's, and the HRS's romanticism-inspired works to Rousseau's primitive style . . . The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh (1889) . . . and compared these to the post-impressionism work of Vincent van Gogh. We marveled over the impasto of van Gogh's painting, and his use of curvilinear lines. V iew f...