The two major aspects of landscape painting could be said to be trees and water, sky and clouds as an extra third option. See; United States Romantic and realist landscape paintings below. It is not such a large leap to imagine Ansel Adams' photography quoting these landscape views and compositional style, which is to say, Romantic landscape painting.
Frederic Edwin Church, Niagara, 1857; and Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California, 1868; images quoted from: A World History of Art Revised 7th edition, 2009, Laurence King Publishing. pp 675, 676
No comments:
Post a Comment