The British Landscape 1920-1950

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These environments tend to be on the darker side, almost making you glad to be in the comfort of your home. You see harsh winters and dark forests displayed in a perceivable way.

John Cannon (2009) The Oxford Companion to British History, Oxford University Press ISBN 9780199567638 The novelty and exoticism of Chinese art and architecture in Europe led in 1738 to the construction of the first Chinese-style building in an English garden, in the garden of Stowe House, at a time when chinoiserie was popular in most forms of the decorative arts across Europe. The style became even more popular thanks to William Chambers (1723–1796), who lived in China from 1745 to 1747, and wrote a book, Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines, and Utensils. To which is annexed, a Description of their Temples, Houses, Gardens, &c. published in 1757. In 1761 he built the Great Pagoda, a Chinese house and garden in Kew, London, as part of Kew Gardens, a park with gardens and architecture symbolizing all parts of the world and all architectural styles. Thereafter Chinese pagodas began to appear in other English gardens, then in France and elsewhere on the continent. French observers coined the term Jardin Anglo-Chinois (Anglo-Chinese garden) for this style of garden. [27] [30] The English garden spreads to the continent [ edit ] The English Grounds of Wörlitz in Germany were one of the largest English parks in 18th-century Europe Characteristics of the English garden abroad [ edit ] 1803 painting of an English garden's elements by Johann Rombauer Misrach is a modern legend in landscape photography. His use of color is what sets him apart from others.There, he guides photography workshops around these unforgiving areas. You can tell he is familiar with the landscape. And this familiarity has captured the essence of the landscape perfectly. Burtynsky’s photographic career is bigger than landscape photography. He is a Ukrainian photographer who is known as one of the best landscape photographers. Wulf, Andrea, The Brother Gardeners: A Generation of Gentlemen Naturalists and the Birth of an Obsession, 2008, William Heinemann (US: Vintage Books), ISBN 9780434016129

But, Lowry’s use of scale – with his dominant buildings and animated people – is something to inspire. It displays the effect of industrialization on everyday life, something that is still ongoing – and prevalent today. Possibly, one of the reasons he will always be known as the people’s artist. Doehler is a photographer from Canada who has been working with a camera since he was 15 years old. Growing up in the British Columbian landscape has profoundly affected his work. The garden attracted visitors from all over Europe, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It became the inspiration for landscape gardens in Britain and on the Continent. In the Netherlands the landscape-architect Lucas Pieters Roodbaard (1782–1851) designed several gardens and parks in this style. [ citation needed] The style was introduced to Sweden by Fredrik Magnus Piper. The British landscape has inspired artists for centuries, with some of the nation’s greatest painters making their name with portrayals of rurality. In the 18th and 19th centuries, landscape became the preeminent genre of British painting as artists such as Richard Wilson, Thomas Gainsborough, JMW Turner and John Constable made it their own. Though new concerns and approaches emerged in the 20th century, landscape has proven to be an inexhaustible subject that continues to hold artists in thrall. This summer, the Royal West of England Academy (RWA)presents ‘ Earth: Digging Deep in British Art 1781-2022’, a retelling of the landscape story that moves away from familiar accounts to focus on how artists past and present have been captivated by the materiality of the Earth itself, from its diverse topography and rich geological resources to the wealth of agriculture and horticulture that its soil sustains, to the increasing damage inflicted on it by human activity. The remarkable range of artistic responses are as diverse as the landscape itself.The Landscape Research Group provides a platform to discuss, investigate and share ideas around topical issues, exhibitions, learning and recent research in the field of British landscape art – understood in the broadest sense, from historic to contemporary. We hope to bring landscape art into focus through wider issues in society, enhancing our appreciation of both the art and these challenging themes. Parkin is a professional landscape photographer and the editor of On Landscape magazine. A few people you will see on this list have been featured in this magazine. Parkin photographs both digitally and in large format film.

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Turner's printmaking centred on his Liber Studiorum (1807-19), a book of a projected 100 plates to demonstrate the expressive power of landscape (Constable grumpily and jealously referred to it as the "Liber Stupidorum"); the title was inspired by Claude's similar project, the Liber Veritatis. He divided his plates into categories such as "Historical", "Pastoral" and "Marine" and micromanaged his engravers to such an extent that when dissatisfied with their work he both engraved and mezzotinted some of the plates himself. During the course of this and subsequent projects, he trained a cadre of British printmakers skilled in representing the effects of paint and watercolour in line and tone that was the envy of Europe. Then, the landscape of Britain was raw, where it had been scraped and scoured by glacial ice, and its habitats were limited resembling the cold tundra of northern Scandinavia today. As Europe's climate steadily warmed and became wetter, and as ice sheets retreated and thawed, so more diverse habitats developed and the sea level surrounding the islands began to rise. The low lying landscape around the margins of the proto-British Isles was incrementally submerged by steadily rising sea water until, that is, a marine catastrophe occurred in Scandinavia. That event caused devastating flooding further south, such that during the Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age), around 8,000 years ago, the channels that now separate the main islands were formed and became established and an island nation was forged. The changes in the British landscape since then have been wrought by climate, nature and humankind. Beyond the farmland, grassland and heathlands lie the wildest habitats of all - the uplands, moorlands and mountains of the higher parts of northern England, Scotland and Wales. In wetter areas bogs of peat have accumulated forming tremendous sinks for carbon and holding water like a sponge; here several species of shorebird breed, and the ground may be quartered by hunting Hen Harriers and Short-eared Owls. L S Lowry (1887 – 1976) ‘Going To The Match'” by mrrobertwade (wadey) is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0