Friday, October 8, 2010

The Basics With Relation To Abstract Landscape Art

By Noreen Berger

There is a long standing debate regarding this form of art and whether it should be considered expressionism, but to some it is just unrecognizable. Real life images can be plain and boring many times, but the same image done in an abstract can be incredibly intriguing. Abstract landscape art also is difficult to label or place in a particular category.

Formal aspects of the actual painting are meant to be as important as the individual qualities that it is being done to represent and this is the idea behind this type of art. There are variations and degrees assigned because of the difficulty and debate that tends to occur when labeling a work as abstract. Being separate from actual reality is the important issue no matter what degree it is taken to when being categorized.

A hillside drawing done crudely can be boring and uninspiring, but completely transformed by adding color and perhaps texture. In doing this it indicates how formal qualities; the colors added to the picture, make a significant difference to the image; the actual drawing. Plato provides us with this theory and he believed that colored lines and circles were not only beautiful, but eternally beautiful.

According to Plato, an image does not need to be the exact representation of its reality. His belief was that non-natural images were to be considered as eternally beautiful. Included in this were most shapes like squares, circles, lines, etc.

The founder of French impressionism was Claude Monet and this was a new style of painting between the 1860's and 1870's. Camille Pissaro, Alfred Sisley and Monet were three that devoted their talent to painting landscapes. Their methods had much to do with the way that light played off of particular objects.

Beginning in 1899, Monet focused on water lilies which were painted in his own garden. This is actually the beginning of the truest for of abstract art or variations of it. He is considered to be one of the leading painters of landscapes in the history of all Western art.

The first impressionist exhibition was organized during 1874 in Paris by Monet, Berthe Morisot and Alfred Sisley. Impression was first used at this time by a noted art critic at this exhibition; labeling the new movement. Monet created approximately two-hundred fifty oil paintings during thirty of his last years.

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