Other things: Time, Seasons, Weather
•The weather, the seasons and time are something we all have experienced and have memories of. Think about remembering a drought or a flood or the burst of colours and smells that spring flowers provide.
•Many artists choose to do paintings or prints about the seasons, time and weather as a different way to view the landscape. See Winter Landscape by Denys van Alsloot and Hoosick Falls in Winter by Anna Mary Robertson (known as Grandma Moses)
•Artists also took to painting en plein-air, or in other words, in the open air, to capture landscapes that show the different elements that are part of nature. See Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood ,1885 by John Singer Sargent.
•Creating artwork that expresses time, seasons or weather gives artists possibilities to experiment with colours, textures, materials and mark making in ways that resuls in imaginary, light-hearted or serious images. See Paris Street, Rainy Day, 1876-77 by Gustave Caillebotte, Four Trees by Egon Schiele
•Real events affected by weather such as storms at sea, how people depend on the changing seasons to grow crops or how people feel about sunsets or the dark are also reasons why artists are concerned with time, seasons and weather. See The Harvesters by Pieter Brueghel, Evening on Karl Johan, 1892 by Edvard Munch and The shipwreck of the Minotaur by J.M.W. Turner
•One artist who was particularly interested in the changing seasons and changing intensity of weather was French artist Claude Monet. Look at his series of Haystack paintings, Poplars and Houses of Parliament, London to see how Monet created works that explore various ways of portraying time, seasons and weather. Also look at Yves Marie in the Rain, 1973 by David Hockney
How do these paintings make you feel? CLICK on the images below to find out more!
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