LANDSCAPE ART - ANNUAL REVIEWS
Prolific plein air painter Haidee-Jo Summers artist reviewed her plein air painting year and exhibitions in four posts which include lots and lots and LOTS of plein air landscape paintings
- My 2013 year review January to March
- My 2013 year review - April to June
- My 2013 year review - July to September
- My 2013 review - October to December
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| Galley Hill Allotments in the snow by Haidee-Jo Summers Winner of The Best Picture (Landscape) 2013 |
- The Best Picture (Landscape) in 2013: readers voted was Galley Hill Allotments in the Snow by Haidee-Jo Summers | Haidee-Jo Summers artist
- The 2013 winner of The Painting Plein Air Plus Prize was M.E. (Mike) Bailey (ME Bailey Art)
He regularly includes lots of very useful tips relating to plein air painting and painting generally - and very obviously thoroughly enjoys his plein air painting. This particular post A Plein Air Set Up For Watercolor (posted last month) almost deserves an award all to itself!
- The 2013 winner of The Travels with a Sketchbook Trophy was Pete Scully (Pete Scully)
He draws the routine and the mundane in the area where he lives and the places he visits and makes most places look interesting. He opens my eyes and remind me again and again about how sketching starts with learning how to see.
LANDSCAPE ART COMPETITIONS
The 2013 Fleurieu Art Prize claims to be the world's richest landscape painting Prize (AU$60,000) and attracts both Australian and International Artists. Do you know different? To see the list of 2013 finalists go to the Finalist Page.
Two competitions/exhibitions for landscape photographers:
- The exhibition for the Landscape Photographer of the Year 2013 is at the National Theatre on the South Bank until 8th February
- U.S.A. Landscape Photographer of the Year If you've taken any great landscape photographs of the USA you may well be interested in a new competition. Find out more at: http://www.usalandscapephotographeroftheyear.com/. I'll be covering this in more detail in a subsequent post.
LANDSCAPE ART HISTORY
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| Robert Duncanson - Land of the Lotus Eaters |
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| Two paintings by Claude Monet of the cliffs at Etretat |
The Standard Examiner has a fascinating piece - sadly with no images - about Top of Utah Voices: Landscape painting in the round. However the word pictures are stunning!
Painters who utilized the art form and travelled with their depictions faced a daunting task of transporting these large works of sometimes dozens of paintings attached to each other and unrolled scene by scene. Some were advertised as being three miles long and taking over an hour to view. Usually 12 feet in height and rolled up on poles which, when unrolled by an assistant, gave the viewers a tour of the chosen scenes the painter portrayed while the artist (standing on a platform) described them.
LANDSCAPE PAINTING - EXHIBITIONS
Art In Liverpool's post 'Turner: Travels, Light and Landscape’ at the Lady Lever highlights an exhibition which runs from 14 February to 1 June 2014 at the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight Village, Lower Rd, Wirral CH62 5EQ. Turner: Travels, Light and Landscape comprises some 30 watercolours, paintings and prints, drawn from the National Museums Liverpool’s own Turner collection.
Paintings such as 'Margate Harbour' (1837) and 'Linlithgow Palace' (about 1807), will be shown alongside prints and watercolours that are rarely displayed due to their light-sensitivity. This will include the watercolours 'Dudley' (about 1830-33), 'Off Dover' (between 1820-1827), 'Wells Cathedral' (1795-96) and 'View of the Mole' (about 1818).
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| New Turner exhibition at the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight - opens 14th February 2014 |
Recording Britain is a touring exhibition organised by the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. It can be seen in the Sir William Harpur Gallery at The Higgins in Bedford until March 20th 2014.
At the outbreak of the Second World War an ambitious scheme was set up to employ artists on the home front. The result was a collection of more than 1500 watercolours and drawings that make up a fascinating record of British lives and landscapes at a time of imminent change.I've already bought the catalogue for the exhibition and it's absolutely fascinating. I think this is one exhibition I'll definitely be going to see. I'll be writing more about the project on this blog.
A National Art: Watercolour & the British Landscape Tradition can be viewed at the Wixamtree Gallery at The Higgins Bedford until Sunday 27th April 2014
The exhibition, drawn entirely from the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery collection of works on paper, explores the landscapes of the late 18th century and early 19th century watercolourists and how they influenced their 20th century counterparts. The work of Cotman, Girtin and Turner will be shown alongside that of Nash, Ravilious and Piper in a celebration of the British landscape and its ideal medium, watercolour. It is part of a season of exhibitions exploring the idea of landscape, which includes Recording Britain and Bawden's Britain.
This one takes some beating when it comes to exhibitions of landscape art. Culture 24 introduces The best art exhibitions to see in Wales in 2014 and starts with a new exhibition in Cardiff thus
How about this for a new take on landscape painting? National Museum Cardiff’s Wales: A Visitation. Poetry, Romanticism and Myth in Art, (February 22 - September 7) takes the neo-Romantic work of David Jones, Graham Sutherland, Richard Long and contemporary abstract landscape painter Clare Woods and wraps it around an LSD-infused trip to Wales made by beat poet Allen Ginsberg in 1967.
PLEIN AIR PAINTING
Katherine van Schoonhoven (Art and Music) has an interesting review post of a trip to the coast of California when she painted the same place at different times of the day. The timescale panorama in learning from the plein air line up
is fascinating.
"View of Pescadero" Mexico, plein air, landscape painting by Robin Weiss on the In Plein Air blog is a great visual report of a landscape painting
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