September 25, 2006

“Landscape Artist Of The Past….”

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The landscape artist Paul Cézanne returned to the same mountain and painted it about eighty times. This dedication was for Montagne Sainte Victoire, near his home in Aix-en-Provence, France. Cézanne wanted to capture the mountain in different weather conditions.The Dutch painters Vermeer (1632-1675)and Rembrandt (1606-1669) were the first of the European landscape artists to paint the sea. Sky and water have been recurring themes for some artists. The English landscape artist JMW Turner is known for his stormy skies and seascapes.

His later paintings blurred the sea and the horizon together, pointing the way to abstract paintings of the future. Monet perfected his technique of depicting water by sitting in a rowing boat on the river, so he could get as near to his subject as possible…..

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