After training in Copenhagen, he joined Friedrich in Dresden in 1818, and together they dominated German Romantic painting.
landscape
Repoussoir through windows, doors, then invading the middle of the painting with Corot and Pissarro, before Cézanne inverted it altogether.
How repoussoir originated in figurative painting, and came to become a popular compositional technique for landscapes from Giorgione to Turner.
Landscape paintings by Daubigny, Sisley, Berkos, Astrup, Pissarro, Julian Onderdonk, Granville Redmond, Théo van Rysselberghe and others.
From 1925, he moved away from themes common with his teacher Friedrich and developed his own Gothic Romanticism.
Pontoise by Pissarro, Paul Nash’s Berkshire Downs, Rosa Bonheur’s teams of oxen ploughing, and Grant Wood’s Iowa prairie.
In landscapes by Rubens, Constable, Ford Madox Brown, Frederic Edwin Church, Millet, Pissarro, Breton, and Prendergast.
When to paint looking into the rising or setting sun, or when to put your back to the sun to show its light cast on a mountain peak.
First fully developed in the Dutch Golden Age, here are Constable’s storms, Turner’s vortices, Boudin’s textured dusk, ending in Paul Nash’s imagination.
Even the most humble wooden or stone bridge has a satisfying geometry about it that contrasts with natural forms without looking out of place.
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