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Mountains and Sea is a 1952 painting by American abstract expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler. [2] [3] Painted when Frankenthaler was 23 years old, it was her first professionally exhibited work. [4] Though initially panned by critics, Mountains and Sea later became her most influential and best known canvas. [5] [6]
The painting was donated to the White House art collection by C. R. Smith, president of American Airlines. It is the earliest of three landscape paintings by Moran in the White House art collection, the other two being his 1912 painting of Point Lobos , Monterey and a 1909-1910 painting of the cliffs of the Green River, Wyoming .
Landscape at Auvers in the Rain is an oil painting on canvas by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in July 1890, and completed just three days before his death, it depicts a landscape at Auvers-sur-Oise , where van Gogh spent the last 70 days of his life. [ 2 ]
In this painting, de Momper portrayed hunters, beggars and riders. [3] In the background, there is an extensive view of the mountains melding into the ocean, with a view of a gulf. The painting shows the imaginative work of the Flemish artist. Flanders is a quite flat land.
The Rocky Mountains is an 1866 oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the German-American painter Albert Bierstadt, a painter of Westward Expansion scenes in the latter 19th century. Description [ edit ]
The painting is a composite image of different climate zones, from snowy mountains in the distance to grasslands in the mid-ground and tropical flora in the foreground. Church's approach to landscape painting was influenced by Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt , who wrote of his travels in South America and exhorted painters to capture ...
Mountain Landscape with Rainbow (German: Gebirgslandschaft mit Regenbogen), is an oil painting by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich, from 1809-1810.Depicting a traveler who has stopped to view a mountainous landscape with a rainbow shining above, the painting was inspired by Friedrich's travels through Germany and along the shores of the Baltic Sea in 1809.
Shan shui painting is a kind of painting which goes against the common definition of what a painting is. Shan shui painting refutes color, light and shadow and personal brush work. Shan shui painting is not an open window for the viewer's eye, it is an object for the viewer's mind. Shan shui painting is more like a vehicle of philosophy. [6]