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Nichols has been featured in several art historical surveys of Realism and landscape painting, including Contemporary American Realism Since 1960 (1981), [4] Facing Reality: Twentieth-Century American Realist and Realistic Drawings in Perspective (1986), [5] Spirit of Place: Contemporary Landscape Painting & The American Tradition (1989), [2 ...
Margaret Ursula Mee, MBE (22 May 1909 – 30 November 1988) [1] was a British botanical artist who specialised in plants from the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest. She was also one of the first environmentalists to draw attention to the impact of large-scale mining and deforestation on the Amazon Basin. [citation needed]
Still life paintings and still life elements in other works played a considerable role in developing illusionistic painting, though in the Netherlandish tradition of flower painting they long lacked "realism", in that flowers from all seasons were typically used, either from the habit of assembling compositions from individual drawings or as a ...
A Birch Grove is a landscape by the Russian artist Arkhip Kuindzhi (1842–1910), completed in 1879. It is kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery (inventory 882). The size of the painting is 97×181 cm. [1] [2] The canvas depicts birch trees growing in a sunny forest clearing. [3]
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 ...
Oil paint on canvas More images: 1904 Nymphenburg: Minneapolis Institute of Art Oil paint on canvas More images: 1904 Amsterdam—View from the Window: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 23.8 x 33 Oil paint on card board More images: 1904 In the Forest: Lenbachhaus, Munich 26 x 19.8 More images: 1904 Sketch for 'Sunday (Old Russian ...
More images: 1882 Forest in Barbizon [11] Private Collection 018 20.5 × 30.5 More images: 1882 Summer [13] Private Collection 019 32.4 × 39.4 More images: 1882 Forest at sunset [13] Private Collection 020 15.9 × 24.8 More images: 1882 Grassy river bank [13] 021 32 × 40 More images: 1882 Landscape with a stake [13] 022 38 × 46.1 More images ...
Haymaking was Plastov's hobby. [Note 1] [8] In one of the photographs from the mid-1940s, the topless artist is mowing grass. [9]Even at eighty years old, during haymaking, Arkady Plastov would set aside his easel, lock up his studio, and, taking a scythe and a sharpening bar in his hands, go to a forest clearing long before sunrise to mow the grass. [1]