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
In the “Impoverishment of Sightseeing”, John Daniel seeks to inspire readers to experience nature beyond observation. Daniel clearly differentiates between the minute appreciation received from sightseeing, and the aweing admiration you can feel if you engulf yourself in nature. Through sharing his personal experiences and scholarly analysis, Daniel demonstrates the importance of being vulnerable to the environment that is necessary for comprehensively understand nature. He argues by allowing ourselves to be naked to nature, one can understand how the natural World has the power to limit our existence.
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...
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
John Fielder is a nationally famous photographer. For the last 40 years his photos are taken of Colorado while he is hiking and skiing. When he first visited Colorado at the age of 14 he said he felt like something or someone guided him their and he belonged in Colorado for the rest of his life. He is well known for creating his best selling books ever; Colorado 1870-2000. His latest work is the work of great outdoors Colorado for its 20th anniversary. When he was 23 he decided to start doing photography. He was amazed by other famous photographers work and tried to take photos just like them, but it didn’t really turn out how he wanted. Nevertheless he did not give up. On his days off he would go on hikes and he would take photos. He practiced for 8 years and decided to quit his job and just focus on photography. He loves nature so therefore he loves to take photos or nature. He has published 33 books in the past 30 years. He uses photography with a large format 4 x 5 film camera, he also carries 7 lenses and 30 sheet film holders and about 400 sheets of color film. In the winter he usually country skies around the mountains of Colorado. He skies 5 to 9 miles a day to get to hut to hut. In the summer he goes on river trips and usually river rafts. Sometimes he rafts on class 5 rapids. He has two daughters who love to go on trips with him although they do not take photos themselves.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
... 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; ...