Artist Research- Landscapes

Albrecht Durer.

Albrecht Durer was European artist who created a high reputation and influenced a lot of creativity in the 14’00s. His work became famous and his main focus was woodcut print, as well as a wide range of different media’s such as : engravings, altarpieces, portraits and water colours. He said a wide range of different artistic features.

I took the interest in looking into his landscape work and seeing his technique when it comes to recreating a wide angled piece of art. I found I was fascinated by his creatively and enjoyed looking at each piece. I think it is so amazing how art has been carried through this world for centuries and how amazing it is we are so easy to look at artwork that dates back this long.

This piece below particularly took my attention as there is a lake sitting in the middle of this town. His attention to detail throughout this piece is amazing and the techniques within using watercolour is fascinating. I love the way the lake has reflections along and the lightness of some area’s makes the water look so realistic. Along the left side there is light white strokes where it’s created the effect of the water crashing along side the bank and I think this is a really effective method I could use in my own artwork.

The way he change’s the tones around the mountains shows the depth between them all and really looks far back from the town because of the way he has worked with the lighting and the shades of the water colour have really made a memorising piece of artwork.

All in all, researching this artist has got me really excited to experiment more with my water colours to get more of a skill on making landscapes and pictures. I would love to recreate full scenes like this way in such a realistic and wide angled manner. I think the water colours really add to this piece of art and make it even more amazing.

Claude Lorrain

Claude was a famous French landscape artist, he spent most of his life in Italy and soon became the leading landscape artist in Italy. His work became bigger and bigger as he earned more money. In 1630’s he soon ranked up to being the leading landscapist in Italy and was well known by everyone as well as charging large amounts for his outstanding and famous work. He was one of the first artists and was known for showing the Sun into his work and playing with lighting which had been a rare sight in the past.

I chose to analyse this piece because I thought it had a good understanding of the contemporary feature this artist brought into to new art work of his era. He demonstrates the sun and shows how sun has effected the lighting all over this landscape. I think the way the artist has been able to show light across the ocean and get the effect of haze above the water is fascinating. I always find historical artwork fantastic to think people could create this art work to last for so long in a time where photography and technology in general is no where what it is today.

I love the way he has made such an impact on this whole piece of art by the power of the sun. He really has captured such beautiful lighting and realistic tones all over this piece. I love the amount of detail in every feature in this place and really gets me inspired to develop painting and get to be able to recreate such beautiful landscapes myself. All in all I have taken a lot of inspiration from both of these artists and will take features from both to help develop during my exercises.