SIGGI EGGERTSSON - Landscape Illustrations

Okay so I don't necesssarily love the appearance of these illustrations, they're a bit too computer-graphicy for me. But I do love the idea of breaking up what YOU see. Links again into using marks to interpret the scene infront of you as opposed to painting exactly what you see.







All images from: http://trendland.com/siggi-eggertssons-landscape-illustrations/

FABINAO BUSDRAGHI - Infinite Palaces and Buildings. YES I KNOW ITS NOT PAINTED JUST LISTEN OKAY.

http://trendland.com/fabiano-busdraghi-infinite-palaces-buildings/

I think this falls into the category of artists not necessarily painting exactly what's in front of them, instead using their mark making to interpret and create rhythm in their paintings. ITS THE IDEA NOT THE PAINTING OKAY GUYS.

ROBERT BEVAN - Dunn's Cottage (1915)

http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Robert-Polhill-Bevan/Dunn's-Cottage.html

Really loved the purple and green colour combinations, unusual partnership but can see purple in the base colour of the greens so ties the painting together, rather than the two colours jarring. Like the thick, square brushstrokes.

EDWARD WARDSWORTH - Requiescat (1940)

http://hannahbyatt.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/edward-wadsworth-percy-wyndham-lewis.html

Shitty image but I've got a postcard of this so it doesn't really matter for sketchbook purposes.
Main focus was on the pebbles, the shadows on each individual rocj if created by overlapping, singluar brush marks.

JACK BUTLER YEATS - Off the Irish Coast (1942)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/off-the-irish-coast-38074

Different to Loiseau's abstract nature as I feel this does have a sense of depth, mainly because of the strong black accents. No detail but the marks create the illusion, very little blending  - this happens actually on the canvas. DIRECTIONAL, strong brush strokes separate the horizontal sea, vertical rocks and multi directional sky.
Oh yeah the colours are also YUM.

JOHN PIPER - Stair Hole, Lulworth (1948)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/stair-hole-lulworth-7993

Love the combination of dry and wet brush strokes, where the former pick up the texture and only cling to certain parts of the painting. Splatters, watery colour combination and strong painting with lots of texture. Also like how the brightness of the white is not lost, could have easily picked up a smidgen of black which would have dulled it down.

GUSTAVE LOISEAU - Port de Goulphar, Belle-Ile-en-Mer (Bout 1900)

http://www.yorkshiresfavourites.org/paintings/port-de-goulphar-belle-ile-en-mer.html

Again saw this in York Art Gallery, love the impressionist style, how colours from the mountains and sand can be found in the sea and vice versa. In paintings where I see this use of colour I seem to look at them in a flat way, even though there is kind of depth in the shading around the shoreline.

TRISTIAM HILLIER - Haymaking (1943)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/haymaking-8321

Good god this image is awful. I saw this in York Art Gallery and I absolutely loved the way Hillier twists the soft association of pastels by making them very bright and uncomfortable. I also wrote that I 'Dont like bottom RHC' (right hand corner) but looking again I'm not sure why it disturbed me so. I think it's because the simplicity of the painting style works with the pastels to create a surreal appearance, but these details just looked lazily done.

BRIDGET RILEY - Pink Landscape and Line Colour Paintings

http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/bridget-riley/pink-landscape-1960

Pink Lanscape - Relies on a lot ot of optical blending. Lines created by colour, density and placement of brush strokes.

First heard of Bridget Riley at the music in art exhibition at York Art Gallery, painting similar to this style:


http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/riley-achan-t03816

'Inspired by nature and the way we see everything in relation to everything else'
'STRIPE PAINTINGS  - some colours recede, some leap forward, creating harmony/decord. OSCILATE'

In York Gallery the painting 'Cloudy blue greens with pink and emerald thrusts' was a picture that was quite small scale so I didn't get the full effect, however Leeds Art Gallery had 'Winter Palace' which was an original on canvas, and good god was it memorising! I found as my eyes moved around the canvas, the ghost image of the previous snapshot overlapped the new one. If you get me. This drew me in even further and it genuinely took a lot of effort to look away.

WALTER GREAVES - Nocturne in Blue and Gold (1870's)

http://patricia1957.wordpress.com/tag/walter-greaves-nocturne-in-blue-and-gold-1870s/

'Inspired by Whistlers 'Noctourne' series of abstract pictures sea/harbour/river.
Nocturne is a musical composition that evoked or is inspired bu the night.
Aesthetic quality of forms and tonal arrangement more important than location depicted.
FLAT SURFACES'
Bdw, the following posts and the one before this, where I write 'Written next to the painting in York Art Gallery' the majority of them are the exact words written, however random notes such as FLAT SURFACES is just my derranged form of note taking. :)

ROGER FRY - Provence Landscape (1925 - 34)

http://thorsteinulf.tumblr.com/post/20137127153/roger-fry-provencal-landscape-1925-34

'Artists should not try to paint nature and the way it looks. He thought the qualities of line, colour and form were more important than trying to represent what we see.
This was the foundation of FORMALISM and ABSTRACTION.
Artists at this time used this method of painting to provoke an 'aesthetic reaction''. - Written next to the painting in York Art Gallery.

PHILIP BARLOW

Beautiful out of focus paintings, I love the reflected flare of sunlight on the waves and the mirage-like thin layer of water on the sand.

Image from http://www.thejealouscurator.com/blog/page/2/

Riiighto, another aspect of my summer project is to look at 'The Painted Landscape', both work from other artists and my own photography and drawing. Suggested styles are Fauves, Impressionist, Modernism, Expressionism. I was going to leave this blog until later on in the project as I wanted to concentrate more on the floral and fashion aspects, but I just saw an artist online that would be a perfect start! Once again, I do not own any of the images I post onto this blog. Tarra for now