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Landscape Composition: 13 Little people

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Staffage – people, animals, birds, carts and ships – make a big difference to many landscape paintings. Have you met the Wanderer too?

November 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Wanderer in paintings 3

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The figure appears in later landscapes, including one by Martín Rico, and a pastel by Millet, before being radically revised by Ferdinand Hodler.

August 9, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Wanderer in paintings 2

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The wanderer with his back to the viewer takes on new life with Thomas Fearnley. Is he the artist’s alter ego?

August 8, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Wanderer in paintings 1

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Wanderers, wayfarers and pilgrims have walked across continents in search of wisdom, spiritual enlightenment, or a bite to eat and sheltered sleep.

August 7, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Figures in a Landscape: 13 Conclusions and contents

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Are they part of a narrative, or staffage? Do they provide scale, or enhance the effect? Are the figures part of the landscape, or even the landscape itself?

August 3, 2017 General, Painting

Figures in a Landscape: 12 Renaissance realism

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Painters of the early northern Renaissance founded modern Western landscape painting, and developed the first examples of staffage.

July 26, 2017 General, Painting

Figures in a Landscape: 11 A helping brush

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When a landscape artist finds it hard to paint figures well, there is one good solution: work with a figurative painter. The results can be spectacular.

July 19, 2017 General, Painting

Figures in a Landscape: 10 Canaletto, Master of Staffage

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One of the first dedicated landscape specialists who met the rising demand for ‘views’, his figures reveal his true interest in his motifs.

July 12, 2017 General, Painting

Figures in a Landscape: 9 Pieter Brueghel the Elder

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Like Poussin, most of his works are strongly narrative in intent. Did he paint any pure landscapes, or are all his figures actors in his stories?

July 6, 2017 General, Painting

Figures in a Landscape: 8 Nicolas Poussin

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Would such a great narrative painter really paint landscapes which lack a story?

June 29, 2017 General, Painting

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