Landscape Into Art"This text shows how man has attempted to convert the complexity of natural appearances into the unity of an idea: by symbols, by curiosity about facts, by fantasy to relieve his fears of by belief in a Golden Age or order."--Amazon |
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achieved Altdorfer antique artists background beautiful believe Bosch Breughel Cézanne Cézanne's character classic Claude Claude Lorrain colour composition Constable Constable's Corot Courbet cubism dark Daubigny decorative Delacroix detail drawings Dürer early effect emotions expression feeling Fête Champêtre fifteenth century figures Flemish forest frescoes garden Giorgione Giovanni Bellini Gogh Gothic Grünewald harmony Hubert van Eyck ideal landscape imagination impressionism impressionists influence inspired Jan van Eyck landscape of fact landscape of fantasy landscape of symbols landscape painting later Leonardo light Limbourg London look Louvre mannerist mediaeval middle ages mind Monet mountains Museum National Gallery Nicolas Poussin nineteenth century painter Patenier perception pictorial Piero Piero della Francesca Pissarro plane poetic poetry popular realisation recognised Renoir rocks romantic Rome Rubens Ruskin scape scene sensation sense Seurat sketches spirit studies style Titian tone tradition trees true truth Turner Venice Virgin water-colour whole