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Landscape meditations : an artist's guide to exploring themes in landscape painting / Elizabeth Mowry

Author
Mowry, Elizabeth
Published
New York, NY : Watson-Guptill Publications, 2005.
Physical Description
160 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents
Historical precedents in theme painting: a brief look at favorite paintings from the past -- 1. General and specific topics -- Wildflowers in the landscape -- Lavender fields -- 2. Ongoing themes -- A metaphor for life -- Roads and paths -- Waterways -- 3. The transient subject -- Mist and haze -- 4. Motifs reflecting human presence in the landscape -- Structure: more or less -- People in the landscape: anonymity -- 5. Learning and theme painting -- An expansive motif -- Tree portraits -- Tree bouquets -- 6. Exploration of place -- The field -- 7. Exploration of an idea -- Minimal light series -- 8. Individualizing our painting methods -- The minimal impression -- 9. Condensing to or expanding from a focal point -- Series of related works -- 10. Visual narration in a series -- Veronica's lace.
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ISBN
0823026027
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