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The drawing is typically characterized by a road stretching between vast fields of rice that leads toward two mountains on the horizon, with the sun nestled in the space between the two peaks. Other objects commonly added by students include clouds, trees, grass (or paddy fields), people (or paddy farmers), a house (the farmer's), [2] [3] and ...
Jungfrau, 1870, Watercolor, Gouache, and graphite on pale blue wove paper. Splendid Mountain Watercolours or Splendid Mountain Sketchbook is a collection of sketches and watercolors by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), executed when he was fourteen years old, and on a summer excursion to Switzerland's Bernese Alps in the Berner Oberland in 1870.
Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works, landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of ...
Shan shui (Chinese: 山 水; pinyin: shān shuǐ; lit. 'mountain-water'; pronounced [ʂán ʂwèɪ]) refers to a style of traditional Chinese painting that involves or depicts scenery or natural landscapes, using a brush and ink rather than more conventional paints. Mountains, rivers and waterfalls are common subjects of shan shui paintings.
A Meadow in the Mountains: Le Mas de Saint-Paul was painted by Vincent van Gogh in December 1889. [1] It depicts fields of young wheat with a background of lilac mountains and yellowish sky. In May 1889 Van Gogh voluntarily entered the asylum of St. Paul near Saint-Rémy in Provence.
The Thames Glimpsed between Trees, possibly at Kew Bridge 1806-1807 Tate Britain, London: 91.1 x 121.6 Weir and Cattle 1806-1807 Tate Britain, London: 88.3 x 120 Washing Sheep 1806-1807 Tate Britain, London: 84.5 x 116.5 Sketch for 'Harvest Dinner, Kingston Bank' 1806-1807 Tate Britain, London: 61 x 91.4 Shipping at the Mouth of the Thames 1806 ...
He spent summers sketching in the Catskills, Adirondacks, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire, making hundreds of drawings and oil sketches that were later incorporated into finished academy pieces which helped to define the Hudson River School. Durand is remembered particularly for his detailed portrayals of trees, rocks, and foliage.
Gold ground paintings had no painted backgrounds and other narrative scenes had highly stylized trees and mountains. [1] In the 15th century, the calendar pages of the most lavishly decorated books of hours, giving the dates of feast days important to the owner, began to include miniatures of the Labours of the Months.