English Romantic Landscape

BLOG#7

--Constable VS. Bansky--

When I first saw the work of Constable's landscape paintings I felt disconnected from them. Why? Because his work seemed a little too perfect, and I just did not relate to the landscape's he painted so maticulously. His canvas's looked to posed, nothing like the landscapes I've run in to in all my life! I liked his attention to detail, especially in the clouds. I too am a cloud lover, but other than the clouds, the rest of the canvas--I felt was a lie. Fromt the trees, to the river, to the farm and everything else in his piece "Haywain" (below)



felt so staged that it turned me off to even wanting to look at more of his work. I hate to say it, but I feel that Constable was selling me a lie on canvas! On the other hand, one of my favorite graffiti artist by the name of BANSKY did a series of landscape paintings that I feel are more "real" at least more "real" in my time and place. Bansky adds an element of political awareness to the landscapes he paints just check it out, I think they are really interesting:





Huge difference fromt the CONSTABLE pieces no? lol. While I am aware that there are many reasons for the differences in their work, I still have to say, that I would never buy a Constable piece (well, maybe just his clouds pieces) that feels as staged as the "Haywain" piece. Lanscape paintings are to be just natural, and his piece does not feel natural at all!

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BLOG#6

---English Romantic Landscape---

THE BEAUTY OF J.M.W TURNER's PAINTINGS
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Never before have I felt so entirely captivated by a painting. In this piece, Turner shows signs of an art that was way before his time; impressionism. Turner's piece "Rain Steam and Steel" really is so sublime that I find myself staring at it at least 4 hours a day! Not because Im a crazy person, lol.. but because It's my desktop wallpaper. :) I loved it that much! Now.. why did his piece captivate me? One reason: because even with the absence of concrete elements such as line, and detail.. it evokes emotions of movement that no other painting I had seen prior to this one (at least in classical art) made me feel like the train was actually moving really fast on its journey. The use of his paint strokes have clearly made the viewer aware of the speed of the train, and it has been painted on canvas as it would look in real life going at that speed! I truly found this piece to be superb because of the way it makes me feel. It makes me feel like I want to go! go! go! I want to go away to where ever the train is going, I too want to be in that movement painted by Turner, that for ever will be imortalized on canvas. I too, want to be like his painting.. eternal.



Rain, Steam and Steel by J.M.W Turner

I would like to share with you all a picture taken by a canadian photographer his name is Hamilton. He did a piece focusing on the enviromental distruction of canada by the large corporations there, he called it "Rain, steam, and toxic waste" and it trully reminds me of the Turner piece because of the colors, and lines that he captured. Yes, they are two different mediums; Paintings and Photography but it is wonderfull too see that allthough very different, Hamilton was able to capture the feeling of the Turner piece in his photograph..just look:


"Rain, steam, and toxic waste" by Hamilton.