Carol Franc Buck, Kat Martin, Millee Tibbs, and John Pfahl are a handful of photographers that are associated with altered landscapes. Altered Landscapes are photographs depicting scenery that tricks the mind into seeing something that’s not necessarily there. These types of photographs transform our mind into seeing something at a different range, then it actually is or even changing the scene by adding additional images. These four artists work in a similar way, with a similar subject, to create beautiful landscapes that are highly unique. Carol Franc Buck’s showcasing’s feature modern-day landscape photographs. Since his work began in the early 1990s, the collection has intended to tackle and secure subjects related to land-dwellings and …show more content…
His creativity genuinely stands out due to his use of snow globes, in which he uses throughout all of his landscape photographs. Personally, I am fascinated by snow globes and the way they can change a person’s mood in a matter of seconds. They are useful when needing to reduce someone’s stress levels and they are beautiful to look at from an overall standpoint. Today, this photographer also focuses on mountainous and valley terrains. Tibbs travels to these sites to photograph them; then he prints these images, folds them, and then re-photographs them. The subsequent images are concurrently controlled and photographically real. The geometric impositions onto the photo-object impresses an artistic essence onto the landscape. Tibbs uses very straight lines which can create a new shape on top of the original photograph. I believe that his work can be unoriginal at times because there are many filters now-a-days that can easily be placed on top of images. His work in my option is very beautiful and I love how the lines being placed on these photographs are used to form new shapes, such as knots. His work can be considered alternated because it’s hard to say whether or not individuals should focus on the mountainous terrain or on the lines that are being placed on the …show more content…
He makes his photographs look visually far away and makes the viewer seem like they are inside of the photograph. His use of color is absolutely astonishing. He uses vibrant colors that makes the scene feel surreal and like a daydream. He would take an existing piece of work, showing hiking trails or forests, and he would personalize it in order to make it unique. Pure and natural landscapes don’t interest Pfahl at all. Pfahl naturally deals with the connection of nature and man’s interaction on land. Pfahl uses specific angles and straight lines using rope, to create a specific picture that he
The ideological imagination of Indians being in complete harmony with the nature led to Curtis encouraging subjects to pose in the landscape in order to perpetuate an inseparable bond between the natural world and their surroundings (Jackson, 1992). Photographs of Indians are taken, such as the tribe gaining livelihoods and creating handicrafts from the nature (Jackson, 1992, p. 95), and referring to the subject as part of the landscape itself. Captions accommodating photographs are used to enforce a particular understanding of the image as opposed to other meaning that may be assumed by others,
Starting with visual elements I saw lines, implied depth, and texture. I see lines by him using lines created by an edge. Each line is curved not straight but it works with the piece. By using this he creates the piece to make it whole. He uses many curved lines within the painting I don’t know if there is a straight line in the whole thing. The next element I saw was implied depth. Using linear perspective you can see the mountains but they look smaller than the rest of the piece. They are the vanishing point in the back making it look as if you can walk down and they will get closer and closer to you. The last element that I saw was texture. They talk about Van Gogh’s painting, The Starry Night having texture through a two- dimensional surface, in which this painting has that similar feel. Van Gogh uses thick brush stokes on his paintings to show his feelings. There is actually a name for this called, Impasto,
Giorgione "loved to paint landscapes." Especially in "The Adoration of the shepherds" you can see how much effort he invested in painting a detailed background in form of a piece of coast and part of a village. When isolated this part takes on a life of its own (If concentrating you can see tiny details such as two persons standing at the edge of the coast.
There is one sensational man who managed to create some of the most intelligent photographs known to the world using only shades of white and black. Ansel Easton Adams was an all American landscape photographer and conservationist. When he made his pictures, he didn’t let others opinions in; he simply took the shots he wanted, and captured them the way that he would like to see them if they were not his own. Throughout Adams’ life, he didn’t only construct work that taught others, but also inspired many along the way.
Peter Gasar one of the great Swiss photographers demonstrates a photolytic style that sits amongst the leagues of the best landscape photographers in history, such as Galen Rowell and Ansel Adams. He has an ability to create amazing intricate photos out of nothing. The only thing I wish he had was a firmer grip on the subjects he
However, Moran sided with the “sublime” aspect of Romantic landscape in which he uses the properties of form and color to evocatively paint a landscape meant to push the limit of formal expression. Moran doesn’t use just these techniques of the “sublime” to make the painting overwhelming, but also combined it with the sheer size of the canvas. He utilizes his space very well to make his viewers feel like he did when he found the canyon. He involves an aesthetic attack on our senses as viewers. Moran uses all of these elements to make the viewers feel like they are actually at the canyon. He used other tactics like the expansive sunlit landscape of the valley below, the tiny people that are dwarfed by the enormity of the landscape around them, and the enormous shadowing of the plane in the foreground which is symbolic of the fleetingness of a storm passing overhead. There is a tree that looks to have had barely made it through a powerful storm. All of these elements are meant to communicate just how small humans are in the wake of the destructive elements and splendor of nature. Yellowstone painting signifies the sheer power of nature and what it can bring which Moran uses to his advantage to captivate the masses.
An artwork will consist of different elements that artists bring together to create different forms of art from paintings, sculptures, movies and more. These elements make up what a viewer sees and to help them understand. In the painting Twilight in the Wilderness created by Frederic Edwin Church in 1860 on page 106, a landscape depicting a sun setting behind rows of mountains is seen. In this painting, Church used specific elements to draw the viewer’s attention directly to the middle of the painting that consisted of the sun. Church primarily uses contrast to attract attention, but it is the different aspects of contrast that he uses that makes the painting come together. In Twilight in the Wilderness, Church uses color, rhythm, and focal
From the piece of artwork “Rain at the Auvers”. I can see roofs of houses that are tucked into a valley, trees hiding the town, black birds, clouds upon the horizon, hills, vegetation, a dark stormy sky and rain.
She starts by bringing a pessimistic view to photographs of nature, by describing what may or may not lie just outside the boundaries of the picture. Mockingly she leads the reader to assume that there are no real nature photos left in the world, but rather only digitaly enhanced photos of nature wit...
The artist Charles Rollo Peters is one who is famous for his nocturne settings. The layering of colors to displace the subject creates a flat perspective that reminds one of wood block prints, through out of focus and off-centered subjects. What increases in distance, is not hinted at through shading of perception- in Visitation, distance and importance is made known through size. The fading colors to the west are passing through the time, much like the visit from the spirit- the fleeting nature of beauty.
A theme that was picked for this painting is the natural world because it’s in this painting in the picture in the background is set in the forest were there are trees, grass and a river way in the back. Everything about this painting is nature from the inside and out, and the sky is super blue in the background he makes sure you can see it when you look at the painting. He made sure you can visualize the place in the forest were you feel like there actually dancing around with you.
...rivers of paint rush across the dark black ground, creating writhing intertwining shapes that suggest figures in a landscape setting, but without any specificity whatsoever.
Hirsch, E. 1995. “Introduction, Landscape: between place and space” in Hirsch, E. (ed.) The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space. Oxford : New York: Clarendon Press.
... all to itself. The care and detail that went into the hills that are closer to the stable is breathtaking. It almost has a sense of life. The way the lights and the shadows are hitting the grass gives it life. The artist again shows his mastery of atmospheric perspective by slowly fading the hills that are meant to be further from the viewer to blue. He does so until all the viewer sees all the way in the back of the painting are blue suggestions of hills.
Fortunately, I wake every morning to the most beautiful sun lit house. I sit on my porch sipping coffee, while I drink in an atmosphere that steals my breath away. Rolling hills lay before me that undulate until they crash into golden purple mountains. Oh how they are covered in spectacular fauna, ever blooming foliage, and trees that are heavy with pungent fruit. Green it is always so green here at my house. Here where the air lays heavy and cool on my skin as does the striking rays of the sun upon my cheeks. I know in my soul why I choose to be here every day. Pocketed in all the nooks and crannies of these valleys and hills are stately homes, rich with architecture resplendent. Diversity is the palate here; ...