Theme : Landscape Paintings with romantic and allegorical styleCaspar David Friedrich tried conveying the emotional and a little bit subjective response to the natural surrounding he lived within. Through his landscapes paintings, not remaining a colourful representation of the Mother Earth only, he spoke the metaphysical side of the human mind, too.
The wanderer above the sea of fog Oil On Canvas
The Artists: Friedrich’s landscape paintings are like pure aesthetic statements. He did a re-evaluation of the natural world; like we can see the same in the paintings of Turner and John Constable. He believed that an artist should paint only what he could see within him and not only the things he could see before him. Following his beliefs, Friedrich painted somewinter landscapes where in the land was painted in which the land was painted barren and desolate, like representing death or mourning.
His paintings depicted the various moods of nature; the night skies with subdued colours, the morning mist with bright colours, and sometimes the tree without leavesand ruined building creating the dramatic and allegorical effect in his landscape the paintings. Here in these articles given with befitting images, an honest endeavour is done to provide some clue and guidance about how to paint a landscape. These articles would try throwing light on the various aspect of the theme: the pencil drawings, watercolours, and oil painting landscapes.
The landscape is the art of painting the greeneries on the earth mainly: the trees, the meadows, the valley, rain and the snow fall. But there had been master painters who had painted the Mother Earth in her every shade, in every form. The greenery is the cover on the earth, the beautiful clothes. And barren earth looks like a woman in her natural beauty. But the artists have embedded beauty in such barren form of the earth, too.
Those who have painted deserts and bare mountains of land mass without green cover of the grass might have find their work more challenging. Here they would have fewer subjects to depict the concept of beauty. But if the above painting done by the master painter Caspar David Friedrich is any evidence, these artists have never found any difficulty in painting the barren land, and uncovered areas of the land. One would hardly find the words spacious enough to describe the artistic prowess Friedrich possessed. His painting brush had enough power to embed the symbolic meanings into the paintings.
Images courtesy By Friedrich, Caspar David [public domain], from Wikimedia Commons, a
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By Friedrich, Caspar David (scanned from book) [public domain], from Wikimedia Commons ]
If we look in the landscapes of the mountains in foreground, we get the detailed view. We can see that there is no presence of any vegetation in this area under painting. When we run our eyes to the distant mountains having lesser detail, there, too, we fail to find the green substances. So this painting is the painting of the barren mountains. But it has its own beauty.
Romantic Landscape Paintings: Putting Love in Colors
The landscape paintings throw us on vastness of land and sea. The flowing rivers make us to believe that the nature would provide for our food for ever; and the upright mountain challenge us to be brave and innovative. When the artists, a pinter takes a brush in his or her hand and stands before a blank canvass with an idea to depict these natural object; the idea in his or her mind is to reflect the our attitudes towards the natural world, the beauty of Mother Earth.
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