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Art Subject: Outdoors
Retrieve I, Original Painting, Landscape, People, Dog, walk
By Henry Walsh
Located in Deddington, GB
Retrieve I is an original painting by Henry Walsh.
This work is acrylic painted onto a printed base on board, and framed in a white box frame. 10 x 10cm (19.5 x 19.5 cm framed).
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic, Board
"Hamlet", Bright Blue Sky Distant Mountains with Snow Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Titled "Hamlet", this figurative oil painting by Marcel Demagny depicts village houses under a bright blue sky, with distant mountains covered with snow...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Abandoned Factory
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Abandoned Factory" c.1945 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist William E. Frates, 1891-969 It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The canvas size is 24 x 30 inches, framed is 40.75 x 34.5 inches. Custom framed in a wooden gold brownish frame, with fabric liner. This particular artwork has been exhibited at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco, August to April 1946.
About the artist:
Painter, etcher. Born in Hayward, CA in 1896. Frates first studied art in San Francisco with Wm Otto...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Winter Shadows 31, Eleanor Woolley, Original Night Time Painting, Affordable Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Winter Shadows 31 [October 2021]
original
Oil Paint on Canvas
Image size: H:15 cm x W:15 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:15 cm x W:15 cm x D:3cm
Sold Unframed
Please note t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Contemporary Art by Dondi Schwartz - Jerusalem Hills
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Dondi Schwartz is an Israeli artist born in Canada in 1961 who lives and works in the Kibbutz Beeri, Negev, Israel. Schwartz studied art at the Avni School of Arts in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Into Fading Sky", by David Grossmann, Original Oil Painting, Sunset
Located in Denver, CO
David Grossman's (US based) "Into Fading Sky" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a twilight sky of purple with a distant blue horizon as a flock of birds fly through ...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Panel
Rocks in Spain - 21 century, Oil landscape painting, Colourful
Located in Warsaw, PL
MAREK NIEDOJADŁO (born in 1954 ) He studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. In 1984 he received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture. Marek Ni...
Category
Early 2000s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Immerse XXV, Original Painting, Landscape, People, figurative, cycling
By Henry Walsh
Located in Deddington, GB
Immerse XXV by Henry Walsh is an original acrylic painting on a 4cm deep canvas that features a supposed busy atmosphere of many people swimming, but at the same time is sparse. Henr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Field Mountain
Located in New York, NY
Ayline Olukman is a multimedia artist whose work addresses the notion of intimacy, solitude and wandering, resulting in photography, painting, writing, etching and drawing. She was b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Stretcher Bars, Paper, Laid Paper
"Quiet Day on the Beach - Montauk" ; Oil painting by contemporary impressionist
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Tina Orsolic Dalessio captures a quintessential summer beach day. Puffy white clouds dot the blue sky that extends over the long beach. The focal point lands on a couple sitting in m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Wild Cherry Blossom" Flowers, White , Oil cm. 115 x 95
Located in Torino, IT
White,Flower,
"Wild Cherry Blossom" Flowers, White
Published in a monographic catalogue
Georgij MOROZ (Dneprodzerzinsk, Ucraina, 1937 - St. Petersburg, 2015)
1937: he was born in D...
Category
1990s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Source - Contemporary Figurative Painting, Dark colors, XXI Century
By Józef Chyży
Located in Warsaw, PL
JÓZEF CHYŻY (born 1983)
A graduate of the Institute of Art at the University of Opole, he received a diploma with honors in 2008 in the studio of graphic art, an annex from painting. A graduate of interior design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow.
He is the laureate of the 1st Prize at the Quadriennale Woodcut and Linocut of Poland, Grand Prix at the Autumn Salon...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Cake Stacked: Blue on Yellow
By Gary Komarin
Located in Fairfield, CT
Unique; Water-based enamel paint on paper stacks
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Distant Yellow Field
Located in Deddington, GB
Distant yellow field is an original painting by Eleanor Woolley.
This painting was inspired by the bright yellow fields of oil see rape that appear at the end of spring.
Oil on str...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Oil Painting on Canvas - Theatrical Misty Forest - Emerging Artist
Located in Vilnius, LT
Due to the artwork's measurements, we recommend delivering it removed from the stretcher bars and rolled in a tube. This helps reduce shipping costs. Wooden parts will be included in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"From the Field to the Red Hill", Rural Landscape Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Yves Calméjane usually uses light impasto techniques, with the weft of the canvas often still visible. The reliefs are quite thin, the painting often spread out, with frank touches ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1970s Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico Southwest Landscape Gouache Painting, Signed Art
Located in Denver, CO
This stunning gouache painting by Wolfgang Pogzeba (1936-1982) captures the beauty of Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico, depicting a dramatic cliffside landsca...
Category
1970s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache
The fateful moment. 2015. Oil, canvas, cardboard, digital print. 40.8x61cm
Located in Riga, LV
Juris Dimiters is among the most intellectual and witty artists of his generation. The characters of his works – paintings and posters – mostly are anthropomorphised fruits and objec...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard, Digital
Landscape with River II
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork " Landscape with River II" c.1970 is a oil painting on canvas by Russian artist Irina Belotelkin Roublon 1913-2009. It is signed lower left by the artist. The canvas size is 16 x 20 inches. It is in very good condition.
About the artist.
Irina Belotelkin Roublon, née Roudakoff, was born in Elisavetgrad, Ukraine to the Russian noblesse ancienne, descendant of Catherine the Great, she was a student at the Mariinsky Noble Ladies' Institute , Novocherkassk, Russia. She was orphaned at the time of the Russian Civil War after her father, General Paul Roudakoff, was fatally wounded in battle; 5 days later her mother died of typhus.
Still unaware of her parents' death, and after witnessing her two sisters' deaths from starvation, the young Irina, then 8 years old, made her way over 1,000 kilometers, alone and through many privations to Moscow and the Estonian embassy there, with whom her Estonian uncle Volodya Blonsky had made arrangements.
After a year in Moscow, and appeals to the Estonian consul, Irina was aided in a dramatic escape from the Soviet Union, to her aunt Anna Blonsky Lassburg (1882–1940) and her husband Doctor Genrick Lassburg in Tallinn, Estonia. Eventually, after in 1929, traveling through Ellis Island and admitted as a student, of voice studies, she joined her brother who had settled, in 1923, in the United States.
Irina came to San Francisco during the Second World War, Among Irina's devotions were ballet and opera. She often entertained friends Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Sergei Leiferkus when they were in town. Natalia Makarova and Yuri Possokhov were often guests at Irina's Russian Christmas and Easter parties.
From the early 1960s through the late 1980s, Irina studied and prolifically created still life and portrait paintings in oil and water color, excelling in flower compositions. She held studio and feature exhibitions; she competed and won prizes. Her work is in holdings throughout the San Francisco Bay area, Europe and Russia.
In 1965 she undertook private study with two prominent Russian painters, including Serge Ivanoff; she executed a portrait of her two masters. She cherished her portrait as executed by Serge Ivanoff.
Among her most accomplished pieces are those of iris and the large white Matilija poppy...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Afternoon Cala Molto", Oil on canvas of underwater swimmers, cool tones
Located in Dallas, TX
"Afternoon Cala Molto" is a stunning oil on canvas by Patsy McArthur, showing a couple underwater swimmere surrounded by refreshing, cool turquoise green water and stunning reflectio...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Dona Ana
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a beach day at Dona Ana beach in Portugal. Dalessio masterfully composes the translucent water washing up on the shore.
Framed Dimensions: 13.5 x 17.5
Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Marina, Sausalito
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Marina Sausalito" c.1950 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Clifford Holmes 1876-1963. It is signed at the lower left corner by the arti...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Snowman in a fairy forest
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this oil painting, I've captured a whimsical snowman, the embodiment of winter joy. The expressive strokes and vibrant palette evoke the crisp, enlivening air of a snowy forest. T...
Category
2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A silent lanscape - XXI Century, Contemporary figurative painting, Forest
By Maria Prokop
Located in Warsaw, PL
Oil on board painting by polish painter Maria Prokop
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Korean Contemporary Art by Yeju Kwon - Memory of Spring, White Rock
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
Yeju Kwon is a Korean artist born in 1993 who lives and works in Seoul, South Korea. She mainly works with acrylic and oil paints, drawing inspiration from nature,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Winter Evening
Located in Zofingen, AG
“Winter Evening” is a quiet and melancholic reflection on the beauty of winter’s stillness. The freshly fallen snow covers the earth like a soft blanket, while twilight deepens and t...
Category
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Three ibex. 1972., paper, tempera, 12.5x12.3 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Three ibex
1972., paper, tempera, 12.5x12.3 cm
Atis Ievins (1946)
The exhibition by artist Atis Ieviņš reminds the very origins of serigraphy technique in Latvian art in the time o...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
H. Wangaller - Signed & Framed Mid 20th Century Oil, The Radiant Summer Sea
Located in Corsham, GB
Boats sail across a crystal sea in this radiant painting of a sunny coastline finished with impasto detailing.
The combination of scale, vivid blues, and passive brushwork create a ...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"PALOMA" Painting (FRAMED) 40" x 30" inch by Isaac Pelayo
By Isaac Pelayo
Located in Culver City, CA
"PALOMA" Painting (FRAMED) 40" x 30" inch by Isaac Pelayo
Medium: Oil stick & aerosol on paper
Size framed: 43.5" x 33.5" inch
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Isaac Pelayo is a head on crash c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Baroque Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Spray Paint
W. D. Williams - 19th Century Oil, A Proud Catch
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming 19th century seascape depicting a proud as punch fisherman standing with his catch on dry land. The artist has managed to capture a wonderful folk art feel in the panting,...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Zlatan Pilipovic (b.1958) - Framed Contemporary Oil, Strolling along the Sand
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming coastal beach scene, showing summer sunlight playing off sea water with beach goers and sunbathers in the foreground. The artist has signed to the lower right corner and t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Olaf Schneider, "We are Loving it Here", 40x40 Lake and Canoe Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
"We are Loving it Here", is a 40x40 original oil painting on canvas by artist Olaf Schneider featuring a serene day at camp looking out over the water. Two wooden canoes lie on the s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Autumnal River Bridge Landscape Refelection By The Mill Pond
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Norman A.Olley dated 1992 and inscribed verso
Title: By The Mill Pond
Medium: gouache/watercolour/ ink/ pencil on artist paper, unframed
Painting : 12 x 16 inches...
Category
19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil, Ink
French Contemporary Art by Jean Duquoc - Le Grand Vent se Partage Ciel & Océan
By Jean Duquoc
Located in Paris, IDF
Signed at the bottom right
Jean Duquoc is a French artist born in 1937 who lives & works in Belz, Brittany in France. In his work, we can see the skill with which he uses color, mov...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Late 19th Century Oil - Feeding the Cottage Kitten
Located in Corsham, GB
This charming study depicts a mother and child at a cottage door watching a kitten drink a saucer of milk. The artist has set the scene in an rural setting in high summer with a robu...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Presque Isle (Day 87) June 14, 2022 Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Presque Isle (Day 87) June 14, 2022" by Primary Hughes (United States) is a handmade landscape painting that is unframed, and will require a frame.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Andalusian Farm" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Daud Akhriev's (EUR and US based) "Andalusion Farm" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a villa on a hill with trees in the foreground and blue sky in the background. ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Feeding the Fish"
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Feeding the Fish" is an original oil painting by Contemporary realist Megan Eisenberg about snorkeling in the beautiful tropical water of the Cayman I...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cottage in Notgrove, Gloucestershire, Elizabeth Chalmers, Landscape art, 2022
Located in Deddington, GB
Cottage in Notgrove, Gloucestershire by Elizabeth Chalmers [2022]
original and hand signed by the artist
Pen and Ink with Watercolour
Image size: H...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Golden Fields in Provence French Post-Impressionist Signed Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020), signed lower front
Ginet-Lasnier, the wife of the painter Jean Lasnier, was born in the Seine-Maritime region of France an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
LANDSCAPE XI - Contemporary Atmospheric Landscape, Modern Nature Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
A few words of the artist about his art:
When i painting landscapes, I usually choose simple geometric arrangements, contrasts of verticals and levels. I juxtapose the smooth surfac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
J. M. Preston - 1965 Oil, Commuters
Located in Corsham, GB
A dynamic abstract depiction of a busy road lined with streetlights. Cars full of commuters drive towards the distance in a haze of headlights and tarmac. Signed and dated to the low...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage 1960s Nocturnal Coastal Oil Painting – Moonlit Marine Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
"The Coast" is an original vintage oil painting from the mid-20th century (circa 1950s-1970s) by renowned New Mexico artist Marjorie Chambers (1923-2006). This stunning nocturnal marine landscape captures the serene beauty of the coast under a glowing moonlit sky. The artist masterfully uses a soothing palette of blues, greens, browns, and whites to create a tranquil, ethereal atmosphere. The painting is rendered on wood panel, signed by Chambers in the lower right corner, and titled on the reverse. It is presented in a custom frame with a dark finish and gold lip, with outer dimensions measuring 18 ¼ x 21 ¾ x 1 inches, and an image size of 11 x 15 inches.
About the Artist: Marjorie Bell Chambers (also known as Marjorie Bell) was born in 1923 in New York. She became a prominent figure in both the arts and social activism, earning a degree in Art History and Political Science from Mount Holyoke College (1943) and a Master of Arts from Cornell University (1948). Chambers moved to Los Alamos, New Mexico, in the 1940s, where she raised her family and worked as a substitute teacher while her husband, William H. Chambers, worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Along with her artistic pursuits, Chambers was a passionate advocate for women's rights and education. She earned a PhD in History and Political Science from the University of New Mexico in 1974, later serving as a faculty member and dean at Colorado Women's College. She was appointed to the National Advisory Council on Women's Educational Programs in 1976 and was vice-chair of President Carter...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Before the Harvest by Eleanor Woolley, Landscape painting, Countryside, Impasto
Located in Deddington, GB
Before the Harvest [June 2022]
original and hand signed by the artist
Oil Paint on Canvas
Image size: H:25 cm x W:25 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:25 cm x W:25 cm x D:2.8cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
Before the Harvest is an Original Oil Painting by Eleanor Woolley. Painted when the fields a green and deep with the summers wheat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Shore by Franco Salas Borquez - Contemporary seascape painting, dark tones
Located in Paris, FR
The Shore is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Franco Salas Borquez, dimensions are 116 × 89 cm (45.7 × 35.1 in).
The artwork is signed, sold unframed and comes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Bawdy Wind that Kisses all it meets, Rosie Phipps, Landscape painting, 2022
By Rosie Phipps
Located in Deddington, GB
The Bawdy Wind that Kisses All it meets by Rosie Phipps [2022]
original and hand signed by the artist
Watercolour and Gouache on Paper
Image size: H:10 cm x W:26 cm
Complete Size of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Ocean Light, Original Figurative Painting, Atmospheric art, Underwater Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Ocean Light is an original figurative painting by artist Bill Bate. It features two figures underwater in this atmospheric composition and colour palette. Bill Bate was interested in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gordon Hunt, Chit Chat Swim, Original Seascape Painting, Contemporary Art
By Gordon Hunt
Located in Deddington, GB
Gordon Hunt
Chit Chat Swim
Original Seascape Painting
Oil Paint on Deep Edge Canvas
Size: 50 cm x 50 cm x 4 cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that in situ images are purely an indication ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Kissing the Ground" abstract oil painting of woman in red suit under blue water
Located in Edgartown, MA
"I throw myself into the water almost every day- it grounds me, the body floats and the mind drifts. The "Swimmer series" has followed me over the years, resurfacing and evolving. Pr...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Snowy forest watercolor landscape with birches by fine italian painter
Located in Milan, IT
Nicola Magrin was born in Milan in 1978. In 2004 he graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan with a thesis on Miquel Barceló.
In 2008 he was selected for a three...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Perched" oil painting of California coastline, large rock on beach, figures
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Oil painting of figures interacting with a large rock formation on a beach in California. A lone figure has climbed atop to sit perched up on the rock, and through the alcove, we see...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
One Tree Hill (Honor Oak Park), Realist Baroque Style London Cityscape Painting
By Alex Rennie
Located in Deddington, GB
Alex Rennie,
One Tree Hill (Honor Oak Park)
Original Oil Painting on Linen depicting a the London Skyline glinting at sunset though the trees of Honor Oak Park.
Alex Rennie has artworks available online and in our gallery with Wychwood Art. Alex was born in London in 1977. He has exhibited widely, both internationally and domestically, including a solo Cork Street show with Waterhouse & Dodd. Rennie’s work has been selected for several competitions including the John Moores...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Canvas
“Beach Day”
By André Gisson
Located in Southampton, NY
Large, outstanding original oil on canvas beach painting by the well known American artist, Andre Gisson. Signed by the artist lower right “Gisson”. Circa 1980. Condition is very go...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lanscape VIII - Contemporary Atmospheric and Contemplative Nature Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
A few words of the artist about his art:
When i painting landscapes, I usually choose simple geometric arrangements, contrasts of verticals and levels. I juxtapose the smooth surfac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Oil
Autumn Landscape in Sunlight - Indian Summer -
Located in Berlin, DE
Frederick Vezin (1859 Torresdale Philadelphia - 1933 Düsseldorf), Autumn Landscape in the Sunlight, oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard, 32 x 41 cm (inside measurement), 44 x 51 cm (frame), signed and dates lower right "F. Vezin. [19]05".
- Cardboard slightly curved, small inconspicuous retouch at the centre of the upper edge of the picture.
About the artwork
Although the painting appears to be a sketch, Frederick Vezin considered it to be a finished work of art, as evidenced by his signature on the lower right. And it is precisely this sketchy quality that leads to an understanding of the painting, which was certainly created in the landscape itself: the natural phenomena were to be depicted artistically at the moment of their observation. This is not done by meticulously sketching nature, but - and here Vezin follows the teaching of French Impressionism - by illustrating nature in its visual fullness. The artist's eye is, as it were, immersed in the visuality of nature, which is made visible by his hand. The painting is therefore not a reflection of the landscape, but its artistic intensification.
This intensification also includes the fact that the foreground of the painting - corresponding to the field of vision - eludes a detail-oriented close-up view. Instead, the spatula-like application of paint, the vertical structure of which corresponds to the structure of the floral growth, has the effect of making nature tangible in its colourful substance.
At the same time, the foreground, which remains indeterminate in its concrete objectivity, creates an atmospheric space that connects with the actual protagonist of the picture, the group of trees, which flares up in shades of red and brown. Here, too, the leaves are more speckled than clearly outlined. It is precisely this 'sketchiness' that opens up a visual experience that makes the landscape accessible in its visual fullness, thus revealing its essence.
In addition to this abundance, the landscape is presented as a structure of order in that the composition of the picture makes the composition of the landscape visible. For example, the group of trees forms a distinct dark green shadow, which is repeated in the shadows cast by the trees behind it. A patterned diagonal axis is created in the picture, which is composed in this way by the landscape itself.
Strictly speaking, this is a cultivated landscape: a fence at the bottom and a low stone wall at the top, running from left to right, are two elements that also have a strong compositional effect. And on the top of the hill, a stone house is embedded in the landscape as the brightest surface in the picture. Nature and culture here form a harmonious synthesis, giving the painting an Arcadian touch.
In order to give the landscape as much space as possible, the horizon line is raised, but the design of the sky is also crucial. The clouds, combined with the shapes of the trees, create a bright blue sky. To the European eye, such a sky is reminiscent of a summer landscape. Accordingly, within the seasonal cycle, the blue sky is reserved for summer, and French Impressionism is also primarily an ode to summer. In Vezin's painting, however, the brilliant blue sky stands above an autumnal landscape, some of the trees even defoliated. It can therefore be assumed that the painting was made not in Europe but in the United States, and that it illustrates the proverbial Indian summer, making Frederick Vezin a pioneer of American landscape painting.
About the artist
Frederick Vezin was the son of a French immigrant to the United States and a German-born mother. This predestined him to promote artistic exchange between the old and new worlds. Having spent part of his schooling in Germany, in 1876, at the age of 20, he enrolled at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art, where he studied with Peter Janssen the Elder, Eduard von Gebhardt and Wilhelm Sohn, among others. He graduated in 1883, settled in Munich and returned to Düsseldorf in 1895, where he lived until his death in 1933.
A native of the United States, he travelled to the country frequently and became a popular portrait and society painter. His artistic talent, however, was most evident in his landscape paintings. Trained in French Impressionism, he developed a virtuoso use of colour and a free brushwork that remained tied to the landscape motif, opening up the landscape itself in a new way. Frederick Vezin turned his attention primarily to the landscape of his homeland, becoming a pioneer of modern American landscape...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
"Andalusian Heartland" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Daud Akhriev's (EUR and US based) "Andalusion Heartland" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts rolling hills spreading over the landscape with an orchard in the foregrou...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
French Contemporary Art by Jean Duquoc - J'Aime les Chemins d'Océan
By Jean Duquoc
Located in Paris, IDF
Signed at the bottom right
Jean Duquoc is a French artist born in 1937 who lives & works in Belz, Brittany in France. In his work, we can see the skill with which he uses color, mov...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Blue and white mountain landscape with man and dog by fine italian watercolorist
Located in Milan, IT
Nicola Magrin was born in Milan in 1978. In 2004 he graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan with a thesis on Miquel Barceló.
In 2008 he was selected for a three...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor