Here are all the photos that I took during the uncertain walk. All of them are put into different categories, each with a separate theme. The themes are URBAN, INDUSTRIAL, ABSTRACT and SEA. I’ve also chosen a few of the best images from each section and edited them in different styles.
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-INDUSTRIAL-
-ABSTRACT-
-SEA-
In the late 1700s in Europe and a few years later in America, numerous advances in the sciences led to new ideas about how the Earth was formed and about the position of humanity in relation to the universe and our own world. Forward looking people began to realize the Earth is an ancient place. A new fascination arose regarding the natural world. Also, as people migrated to the larger cities, people wanted to be reminded of the beautiful countryside, far from muddy city streets full of horse droppings, running sewage, and air full of coal soot and smog. Most of today’s modern cities are clean and livable in comparison. Innovation created new wealth, and these people wished to adorn their walls with objects of beauty including landscape paintings. This new outlook created the perfect conditions for landscape art to assume the highest position in the minds of the wealthy art collectors. Religious themes assumed a less important role as a result.
A new generation of landscape painters arose not only to meet the demand, but also to create landscape art for its own sake. During the first half of the 1800s, landscape art became more realistic, even reaching levels of hyperrealism as artists strove to bring back dramatic vistas from every corner of the world. In the second half of the century, photography began to have an impact on landscape painting and changed it forever.
The first movement of this century in landscape painting was Romanticism. The irony is Romanticism was a reaction against the stark realism of modern science during a period of scientific advancement! It emphasized emotions such as awe and rapture. So the move into nature that occurred because of scientific discoveries led to a deeper probing into human emotion regarding our natural surroundings.
Landscape Photography shows spaces within the world that are huge and continuous, but at other times can be microscopic. The presence of nature can be captured by photographs along with the man-made features that have disturbed the landscapes.
From the beginning of landscape photography and into the present time, some of the most noted photographers have been inspired and challenged by the overall beauty of nature and their desire and appreciation to see it preserved. Many landscape images show little to none human movement and are taken in the search of a pure, clean representation of nature in all its fullness without human influence, instead featuring strongly defined landforms, weather, and ambient light.
Romanticism has long been associated within the landscape. In the medium of photography, the sense of romance of the landscape features it spirit in full bloom. It is very hard to categorise. The very nature of Romanticism is rather uncontrollable and unpredictable. At other times its quiet and sensual power manifests into beautiful and stunning images. Sometimes it features animals or humans, while at other times the landscape will be empty and bare of any form of life. The most notable feature in a landscape image of romantic quality is that it will stir the emotion and feelings and cause inspiration of the imagination.
Romanticism in todays photography
Around the world, countries name their seasons differently, and some also differ with the starting date of the seasons. The purpose of the Romantic Landscape is to widen our understanding of what contemporary landscapes look like across the world today. Photographers nowadays tend to capture romantic landscapes the feature either water with reflections or sunsets that contain lots of orange tones as they are calming colours that are associated with romaticism.
The are two main meanings for Landscapes, these are:
These two definitions tell us that a landscape geographical elements that makes up an area of land. Elements may include waterfalls, tress, woodland, oceans and many others. However landscapes does not only have to be formed by natural elements it can also be made by man made features and many modern day photographers capture images of urban landscapes situated in towns or of architecture which makes up a piece of land.Combining both their physical origins and the cultural overlay of human presence, often created over millennia, landscapes reflect a living synthesis of people and place that is vital to local and national identity. The character of a landscape helps define the self-image of the people who inhabit it and a sense of place that differentiates one region from other regions. It is the dynamic backdrop to people’s lives. Landscape can be as varied as farmland, a landscape park, or wilderness.
Below is a variety of natural,urban and original landscapes:
The history of landscapes goes way back through time when Artists started painting landscapes in ancient times. The Greeks and Romans created wall paintings of landscapes and gardenscapes. After the fall of the Roman Empire, the tradition of depicting pure landscapes declined, and the landscape was seen only as a setting for religious and figural scenes. This tradition continued until the 16th century when artists began to view the landscape as a subject in its own right. The artistic shift seems to have corresponded to a growing interest in the natural world sparked by the Renaissance.
Landscape with a Calm, Nicolas Poussin, 1650–1651
The term ‘landscape’ originally comes from the dutch and then was developed in the netherlands were it became a popular subject for painting. By the 17th century the emergence of classical landscape was seen, In a classical landscape the positioning of objects was contrived; every tree, rock, or animal was carefully placed to present a harmonious, balanced, and timeless mood. The classical landscape was perfected by French artists Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain.
Classical Landscape with Figures and Sculpture, Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, 1788
During the 18th century, Italy continued to be a popular source of inspiration for landscape artists. Then Engalnd and france became popular withlandscape art. The 19th century held many milestones for the history of landscape art. As the Industrial Revolution altered the traditions of rural life, the old hierarchy of subjects crumbled. This era was also the era that saw the birth of landscape photography which greatly influenced the ways artists painted.
Irises, Vincent van Gogh, 1889
As photography in the 20th century gained acceptance as an art form, artists used the medium to create interpretations of the land through pictorialist effects and, later, through formal compositions of close-up, cropped views of the landscape. In America, photographer Ansel Adams captured the country’s attention with his breathtaking views of the wild beauty of the American West.
Ontario, California, Robert Adams, 1983
Ansel Adams
