Sublime landscape paintings are one of art history’s most enduring and iconic subjects, from the dreamy spires of the Renaissance to swirling 19th Romanticism and the experimentation of contemporary times.
Jonathan Jones: Constable's down-to-earth vision of the East Anglian countryside depicts shepherds and farmworkers in a painting that is heartstoppingly beautiful
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Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. His primary interest was the contemplation of nature, …
Frederic Edwin Church 1826 -1900 Cotopaxi 1855 Oil on canvas 28 x 42 in. (71.1 x 106.8 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC Frederic Edwin Church 1826 -1900 Cotopaxi 1862. Oil on canvas, 48 x 85 inches. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Frederic Edwin Church 1826 -1900 Eruption at Cotopaxi, ca. 1865. Oil on canvas, 9-9/16 x 17-1/16 inches. Private collection. Frederic Edwin Church 1826 -1900 Aurora Borealis 1865 Oil on canvas 56 x 83 1/2 in. (142.3 x 212.2 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC Ten years ago the Tate Gallery in Britain had a wonderful exhibition entitled American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States 1820-1880 It featured revelatory, epic landscapes painted in nineteenth-century America The works of these American artists were shown in nineteenth-century London and admired by Queen Victoria. However in present day Britain the works of the Hudson River School have been scarcely seen outside the United States and therefore not largely known about outside the US and not properly appreciated One of the American artists celebrated was Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900) While committed to the natural sciences, he was "always concerned with including a spiritual dimension in his works" See William H. Gerdts The Worlds of Frederic Edwin Church What they celebrate are what Turner and the early English Romantics tried to capture in their works and what Hopkins called “God`s grandeur”, or Man`s response to the great works of creation At the heart was the popularisation of Burke`s philosophy of the sublime It was this response which Pope Benedict XVI referred to in his recent catechesis on Faith when he said: “St. Augustine, who during his life long sought the Truth and was seized by it, has a beautiful and famous page, in which he states: "Question the beauty of the earth, question the beauty of the sea, question the beauty of the air, amply spread out everywhere, question the beauty of the sky... question all these things. They all answer you: 'Here we are, look; we're beautiful'. Their beauty is their confession. Who made these beautiful changeable things, if not one who is beautiful and unchangeable? "(Sermons, 241, 2: PL 38, 1134). I think we need to recover and help our contemporaries recover the ability to contemplate creation, its beauty, its structure. The world is not a shapeless magma; rather the more we know about it, the more we discover its amazing mechanisms, the more we see a design, we see that there is a creating intelligence. Albert Einstein said that in the laws of nature "a mind so superior is revealed that in comparison, our minds are like a totally insignificant reflection" (Il Mondo come lo vedo io, 'The World as I See It', Rome 2005). Thus, a first way leading to the discovery of God is the careful contemplation of creation.”
DETAILS -------------------------------------------------- This beautiful art exhibition poster features the work of the English 19th century romantic painter John Constable, famous the world over for his sublime landscape paintings. The image on the poster is one of his masterpieces, 'The Vale of Dedham', which he painted in 1802. WHY CHOOSE TO SHOP WITH ART POSTER ARCHIVE? -------------------------------------------------- Art Poster Archive has over 30 years’ experience of working with some of the world’s best art galleries. All our posters are printed using a highly professional process, using gallery-level inks, archival paper and an expert-level printing machine. That’s how we ensure your print will be precisely made, museum-quality, and thus certain to make an impression. SIZES & DIMENSIONS -------------------------------------------------- A1 - 23.4 x 33.1 inches/59.4 x 84.1 cm A2 - 16.5 x 23.4 inches/42.0 x 59.4 cm A3 - 11.7 x 16.5 inches/29.7 x 42.0 cm A4 - 8.3 x 11.7 inches/21.0 x 29.7 cm A5 - 5.8 x 8.3 inches/14.8 x 21.0 cm A6 - 4.1 x 5.8 inches/10.5 x 14.8 cm SHIPPING -------------------------------------------------- All our prints are carefully packaged and shipped using strongly protective poster tubes and packaging materials to guard against any possible damage on the way. DELIVERY AND PROCESSING TIMES -------------------------------------------------- We aim to dispatch all items within one business day of the order being placed, and normally much sooner than that. UK orders usually arrive within 2-3 working days from the date of dispatch. US, European and Rest of the World orders usually arrive within 3-6 working days from the date of dispatch. Please note, all our posters are unframed. We’re always happy to talk to our customers, so if you have any comments, queries or suggestions please do get in contact.
Elias Martin, Romantic Landscape with Spruce c.1768-1780
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This work is a reprint of one of a projected set of four monumental landscapes representing the times of day that Gericault painted in his Paris studio. (Only three were completed.) Conceived as a decorative ensemble, the paintings fuse souvenirs of ruins in the Italian countryside, which the artist had visited in 1816 and 1817, with the grand manner exemplified by past masters Nicolas Poussin and Joseph Vernet. The stormy sky and turbulent mood of this picture exemplify notions of the Sublime and the aesthetic of the emerging Romantic movement.
The sublime is a concept with a long, varied history, and its reach has only widened. What is this jaw-dropping experience we call ‘sublime’?
Ruin Lust is a mini-catalogue of 40 works from the Tate Britain exhibition of the same name, co-curated by Brian Dillon − respected essayist, critic and
Artist Jeremy Miranda (previously) paints in a space between worlds: reality and memory, indoor and outdoor, past and present. Ideas and concepts bleed together within his acrylic paintings like the fuzzy edges of a dream, where powerful images exist amongst unexpected locations and backdrops. The New Hampshire-based artist is heavily influenced by his surroundings in the American Northeast, apparent in his depiction of dense woods, crashing waves, and the recurring motif of lush greenhouses—a more literal depiction of his mixing of environments. More
Tate Liverpool Ken Simons has been hanging artworks in the gallery for 30 years. The decision to let him select his favourites from the vaults has resulted in an inspiring, unfashionable and richly connected show
The sunny summer painting with sunset is a beautiful wall decor, the painting is created en plein air, the artwork is full of different bright colours, combi...
Artist: Théodore Gericault (French, Rouen 1791–1824 Paris). Date: 1818. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 98 1/2 x 86 1/2 in. (250.2 x 219.7 cm). Classi...
Sublime landscape paintings are one of art history’s most enduring and iconic subjects, from the dreamy spires of the Renaissance to swirling 19th Romanticism and the experimentation of contemporary times.
