New art finds. (Well, new to me.) I was looking for ideas on how to approach a problem I'm having with something I'm working on, so i did a google image search for "traditional landscape." All of the stuff herein came up.
Interesting stuff here about the process of making a painting, by
Richard Horvath of Australia.
I like how his work goes back and forth from being creamy and Impressionist-influenced to flat and breaking down the pictorial plan by using blotches, grids, or even mixed media, including the use of computer-generated images--sometimes within the same composition.
Shadows over Bass Meadows Boulevard,
Oil on canvas with texture mounted on framed panel
600 x 450 mm
Some other things that rock:
I came across this
here. At first I thought it was a painting, but then I realized it was a photograph. I love it.
Martin Parr, New Brighton, 1986.
And now I'm getting introduced for the first time to the work of British photographer
Martin Parr.
Martin Parr, from Common Sense 1995-1999
Martin Parr, Gas Pump (?)
Edward Hopper, Gas Pumps (1940)
And I can't believe I've never seen this before:
Ruth Bernhard, Easter Fantasy (1933)
Can anyone fall as hard for the west as a transplanted midwesterner? Check out the work of
Carl Rowe.
Spring Green
Alkyd on canvas
20" X 50"
Woodriver Valley
Alkyd on canvas
24" X 50"
"As a transplanted Midwesterner, perhaps I see this land with greater intensity." --Carl Rowe