The British Landscape 1920-1950

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He uses the landscape to talk about the world. This seems like such a simple concept, yet it is what he chooses to photograph that makes it effective. One aspect of the new style was making woodland more interesting and ornamental, leading to the establishment of the woodland garden as a distinct type. This took several forms, one of which was helped by the developing Gothic revival. Horace Walpole, a great promoter of the English landscape garden style, praised Painshill in Surrey, whose varied features included a shrubbery with American plants, and a sloping "Alpine Valley" of conifers, as one of the best of the new style of "forest or savage gardens". [19] This was a style of woodland aiming at the sublime, a newly-fashionable concept in literature and the arts, or at the least to be picturesque, another new term. It really required steep slopes, even if not very high, along which paths could be made revealing dramatic views, by which contemporary viewers who had read Gothic novels like Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764) were very ready to be impressed. [20] Humphry Repton [ edit ] View of Wentworth Woodhouse, South Yorkshire by Humphry Repton, before proposed landscaping View of Wentworth Woodhouse, South Yorkshire after proposed landscaping, with 'flap' opened to show new lake and bridge

The appropriate style of garden buildings was Gothic rather than Neoclassical, and exotic planting was more likely to be evergreen conifers rather than flowering plants, replacing "the charm of bright, pleasant scenery in favour of the dark and rugged, gloomy and dramatic". [21] A leading example of the style was Studley Royal in North Yorkshire, which had the great advantage, at what was known as "The Surprise View", of suddenly revealing a distant view from above of the impressive ruins of Fountains Abbey. [22] From the 1200s onwards, however, increasing enclosure by regional landowners led to the permanent enclosure of private land and a decline in common land. This process peaked in the 18th and 19th centuries and led to the further spread of walls, fences or hedges and contributed significantly to the patchwork appearance of the landscape that we see today - extensive areas of hedged or fenced fields with small, isolated copses or patches of woodland. Carla Regler is a British-based photographer who is very skilled in her craft. Her skills have led her to give photography tours across the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. Roberts’ work shows the everyday landscape with people in the frame. This highlights the surroundings as you create stories in your head of how the spaces are used.

A lot of his photography depends on the viewer’s contextual knowledge. Whatever is outside of the frame is almost as important as what is in it. This style of landscape photography is essential. It shows a reflection of another place and time. John Cannon (2009) The Oxford Companion to British History, Oxford University Press ISBN 9780199567638 It’s not surprising that his catalog includes images from every continent on Earth. He is an honorary fellow of the Royal Photographic Society who also gives talks around Europe. Brown's contribution was to simplify the garden by eliminating geometric structures, alleys, and parterres near the house and replacing them with rolling lawns and extensive views out to isolated groups of trees, making the landscape seem even larger. "He sought to create an ideal landscape out of the English countryside." [13] He created artificial lakes and used dams and canals to transform streams or springs into the illusion that a river flowed through the garden.

Bin-credible! Spellbinding timelapse video of trash-filled rivers in Indonesia being cleaned up by charity workers goes viral All aboard for some Christmas cheer: The festive spirit is a joy to behold at these glittering markets, from Bruges to Bath (and they can all be reached by train from London in less than 6 hours)Chang, Elizabeth Hope (2010). Britain's Chinese eye: Literature, empire, and aesthetics in nineteenth-century Britain. Stanford: Stanford University Press. p.18. ISBN 978-0-8047-5945-8. Piper's embrace of abstract art reflects a wider tendency in the 1930s to evolve a distinctive British strand of modernism. In 1934, Piper was elected to the Seven and Five Society. Founded in 1919 as a traditional exhibiting group, it underwent a radical and progressive transformation in the 1930s under the leadership of Ben Nicholson to become the abstract-constructivist wing of British art. At the same time, Piper supported the ambitions of Myfanwy Evans, his partner and future wife, to launch and edit AXIS: A Quarterly Review of “Abstract” Painting & Sculpture. Published between 1935 and 1937, it was the first magazine in Britain devoted to international abstract art. Chang, Elizabeth Hope (2010). Britain's Chinese eye: Literature, empire, and aesthetics in nineteenth-century Britain. Stanford: Stanford University Press. p.28. ISBN 978-0-8047-5945-8.

From the humblest of beginnings – displaying his art in his father’s barbershop – Turner weaved a tail through art that saw him break through the romanticism era of his time. Romanticism artwork is precise and detailed. However, as Turner’s developed his style, his artwork began taking on a less defined approach, some suggest that this was partly due to his failing eyesight.

As a decorated artist with membership in the Royal Academy and an honorary doctorate from Napier University, Rae’s abstract depiction of landscapes and an in-depth understanding of colour is always evident in her work. The underlying thread of all of her work is her unique artistic expression. This artistic expression is on perfect display in all her work, regardless of whether she’s painting an arctic landscape or a landscape closer to home Barbara Rae RA at the Royal Academy 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. Every scene is made with a feeling that you can step into the landscape. There are no artificial colors or HDR effects. Just nature and natural light. I would say he is one of the best landscape photographers. Phillip Slotte is another young landscape photographer. He is based in Sweden and his work has been featured in National Geographic and many others. Slotte presents you with dramatic landscapes that lean toward the darker side. Aussie living in London reveals four British things she thought were weird after making the move - but now finds 'completely normal'